Diana McCaulay is a Jamaican environmental activist and writer, a lifelong resident of the capital city of Kingston. She has written five novels – Dog-Heart, Huracan (Peepal Tree Press), Gone to Drift (Papillote Press and HarperCollins), White Liver Gal (self-published) and Daylight Come (Peepal Tree Press). She has won the Commonwealth Short Story Prize for the Caribbean region twice, in 2012 and 2022.
Diana was awarded the Norman Washington Manley Award in 2021 for Excellence for Protection and Preservation of the Environment and in 2022, a Gold Musgrave Medal for distinguished eminence in the field of literature by the Council of the Institute of Jamaica.
Her forthcoming novel, A House for Miss Pauline, will be published by Dialogue Books in the UK and Algonquin Books in the USA in early 2025.
Editorial Statement
I am honoured to be asked to co-edit this vital anthology Writing For Our Lives, especially as the Caribbean has just experienced the devastating impacts of Hurricane Beryl. We are indeed writing for our lives, our islands, our livelihoods and our futures and I hope the stories in this collection will influence the governments of the world to finally act on the climate crisis with the urgency it requires.
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