[2] At Troy University, she was the first Jamaican editor of the student newspaper, The Tropolitan, and graduated summa cum laude.
[3] Besides Jamaica, she has lived in the United States, Belgium, England and Singapore and now mainly shares her time between France, where she is based with her family, and the Caribbean.
[4] Her first collection of short stories, Satellite City, won the regional Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book (Canada and the Caribbean).
[8] In 2020, her novel A Million Aunties was published in the Caribbean and North America, and it went on to be longlisted for the 2022 International Dublin Literary Award.
As a reporter, she has written numerous articles that have appeared in a range of media, including The Guardian,[13] Black Enterprise, The Wall Street Journal Europe, New African,[14] and Chess Life.