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ABOUT the CRB

The Caribbean Review of Books (CRB) is a quarterly magazine, and the only publication exclusively covering Caribbean and West Indian books and writing, for readers interested in the regional literary scene. Each issue includes reviews of new and recent writing as well as classic literature of Caribbean and West Indian interest (about the Caribbean or written by Caribbean authors): novels and poetry collections, plays and films, biographies and memoirs, books about history, art, culture, politics, and current affairs, reviewed with intelligence and vigour for non-academic, non-specialist readers. The CRB also includes new fiction and poetry and essays about Caribbean literature and culture.

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Editor: Nicholas Laughlin
Publisher: Jeremy Taylor
Editorial assistant: Mirissa De Four
Marketing: Caroline Neisha Taylor and Dominique Monteil
Contributing editors: Jonathan Ali, Vahni Capildeo, Christopher Cozier, Brendan de Caires, Anu Lakhan

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The original CRB was published in the early 1990s by the University of the West Indies Publishers' Association in Mona, Jamaica. Trinidad-based publishing company, Media and Editorial Projects (MEP) Ltd (who also produce Caribbean Beat magazine), with no source of external funding, undertook to revive the CRB as a publication supported by subscriptions and advertising. The revived CRB was launched with a special pilot issue in May 2004, with regular issues following every three months. The CRB was officially incorporated as a non-profit company on 2 March, 2007 under the Companies Act (1995) in the Republic of Trinidad & Tobago, and continues to operate with the support of MEP. Current partners include the Prince Claus Fund. Click here for the latest news about the CRB.

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CRB Editorial Board

David Dabydeen was born in Guyana, and moved to the United Kingdom with his parents in 1969. He is the author of five novels, including the forthcoming Our Lady of Demerara, and four collections of poetry. He is currently professor at the University of Warwick Centre for British Comparative Cultural Studies.

Edwidge Danticat was born in Haiti and moved to the United States when she was 12 years old. She is the author of several books of fiction, including Breath, Eyes, Memory, Krik? Krak!, The Farming of Bones and, most recently, The Dew Breaker. She has also written a book about carnival in Jacmel, Haiti, and is the editor of an anthology called The Butterfly’s Way: Voices from the Haitian Dyaspora in the United States.

Marlon James is a Jamican writer, author of the novel John Crow's Devil. He teaches creative writing and English literature at Macalester College in St Paul, Minnesota.

Jane King is a St Lucian poet, author of two collections: Into the Centre and Fellow Traveller. Her poetry has also appeared in several anthologies in the UK, and literary magazines in the US. She teaches literatures in English at the Sir Arthur Lewis Community College in St Lucia.

Ian McDonald is Trinidadian by birth and Guyanese by long adoption. He is the author of the novel The Hummingbird Tree, and of several poetry collections, most recently, Between Silence and Silence. He is the editor of the literary journal Kyk-Over-Al, which he helped revive in the 1980s. He was also for many years the administrative director of the Guyana Sugar Corporation.

Annie Paul is head of publications at the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES) at the University of the West Indies, Mona, and managing editor of the journal Social and Economic Studies. She is a founding editor of Small Axe, and was production editor of the original Caribbean Review of Books.

Kim Robinson Walcott has worked as a book editor and publishing consultant for most of the last 20 years. Her publications include Jamaican Art and The How To Be Jamaican Handbook, both of which she co-authored. She is currently editor of books and monographs at the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES) at the University of the West Indies, Mona. She is also the editor of the Jamaica Journal.

Olive Senior is a former editor of the Jamaica Journal and the author of several works of social and cultural history — including, most recently, The Encyclopedia of Jamaican Heritage — but she is best known for her fiction and poetry. Her short story collections include Summer Lightning, Arrival of the Snake-Woman, and Discerner of Hearts; her poetry collections are Gardening in the Tropics and Talking of Trees. She currently lives in Toronto.

Samuel B. Bandara (1994-2006) was the editor of the original CRB, and was a member of our editorial board for the revived CRB. He was a librarian at the University of the West Indies, Mona, for over 25 years, during which time he worked on many Caribbean bibliographies, with a special interest in literature. He died in September of 2006.

E.A. Markham (1939-2008) was born in Montserrat and lived primarily in the United Kingdom since 1956. A poet and short-story writer, his most recent books are
Taking the Drawing Room Through Customs: Selected Stories 1970-2000 and the poetry collection A Rough Climate. He passed away on 23 March, 2008.



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