Kim Robinson-Walcott
Kim Robinson-Walcott is an award-winning Jamaican writer and the former editor of the seminal Caribbean culture journals Caribbean Quarterly and the Jamaica Journal. Her short story ‘Spreeing in the SUV’ was the Winner, Americas, Commonwealth Short Story Competition, 2005 and her stories and poems have appeared in several journals including SX Salon, Bearing Witness II, Susumba’s Bookbag, Interviewing the Caribbean, and Granta Magazine.
Her work of critical analysis Out of Order: Anthony Winkler and White West Indian Writing (2006) was based on her 2001 PhD dissertation. She is the co-author, with Petrine Archer Straw, of Jamaican Art (1989, 2011), and the author and illustrator of the children’s books Dale’s Mango Tree (1992) and Pat the Cat (2018). You Have to Harden Your Heart in Times Like These is her first short story collection.
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