Denise DeCaires Narain

Denise DeCaires Narain is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Humanities at the University of Sussex and has published widely on Caribbean women’s writing. Her book, Contemporary Caribbean Women’s Writing: Making Style was published in 2001 and she is currently working on a monograph on the Jamaican writer Olive Senior. She is also working on a book-length study of postcolonial women's writing, provisionally titled, Writing and Reading 'the' Postcolonial Woman which originally started on a Leverhulme Fellowship. She was the judge of the Guyana Fiction Prize in 2003 and has been a member of the Advisory Board of Wasafiri since 2003 although she has been a contributor to Wasafiri for many years.