Amryl Johnson (6 April 1944 – 1 February 2001) was a writer born in Trinidad who lived most of her life in Britain.

[1] Johnson was born in Tunapuna, Trinidad, and was brought up by her grandparents until the age of 11, when she moved to Britain to join her parents.

[2][3] She attended secondary school in London and went on to study British, African and Caribbean literature at the University of Kent.

[1] For a time, Johnson taught at the University of Warwick but generally supported herself by writing and performing.

[1] Sequins for a Ragged Hem (1988) narrates Johnson's second return tour to Trinidad as a spiritual "homecoming" made problematic, among other reasons, by the fact that the house where she was born had been demolished.