I started out writing short prose and short adult fiction for the Jamaica Observer. I love how a great short story can stay with you forever.

After I became a parent, I wrote children’s books. There were important lessons I wanted to impart but in a fun way so that children would get the messages of compassion, kindness, inclusion, diversity, perseverance and tenacity, and road safety. I love that my children have benefitted from my stories and I want every other child to also benefit. It’s important for me to have people who look like my children to be represented in books. My children and our lives together have inspired and taught me life lessons that I could never have imagined.

My writing is influenced by my background as a Jamaican, a person of colour, a woman and living in a diverse city in North America where I observe the every day tensions of the struggle for identity, the gap between the generations especially between immigrants and their children, the hope and the struggle for a better life.

Saltwater Stories was born when I became a certified Amherst Writers & Artists facilitator, offering workshops based on the belief that a writer is someone who writes and every writer has a unique voice. We write together, share and connect in a way that is uplifting and celebratory while maintaining confidentiality for all writers. Helping other writers is a dream come true. If this sounds like something you would like to try, click on workshops for online sessions.

Thank you for landing here. I hope something inspires, motivates and encourages you to live your best life.