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Jane Bryce was born and brought up in Tanzania, and lived in Italy, the UK and Nigeria, before moving to Barbados to teach at the University of the West Indies in 1992. There she taught African Literature and film, and creative writing. She is an active member of the Caribbean literary community as reviewer, editor and judge for literary competitions both locally and regionally. She has published widely as a literary and cultural critic and her short stories have appeared in Poui (Barbados), Scroll in Space (Canada), Wasafiri (UK), Chimurenga (Cape Town), New Gong (Nigeria), Short Story (United States), and most recently in The Caribbean Writer (US Virgin Islands), which awarded her the Cecile de Jongh Literary Prize in 2019, and Praxis (Nigeria). She compiled and edited the anthology Caribbean Dispatches: Beyond the Tourist Dream (Macmillan UK: 2006) and is author of Chameleon and other stories (Peepal Tree Press, 2007). |
