[2] Jenkins went on to take the Master's of Fine Arts (MFA) creative writing programme at the University of the West Indies at St Augustine,[3] graduating in 2012 with high commendation.

[14][6] Jenkins was in 2015 the inaugural British Council International Writer in Residence at the Small Wonder Short Story Festival at Charleston in East Sussex.

[11][15] An excerpt from her then novel-in-progress, De Rightest Place, appeared in The Caribbean Review of Books in October 2015.

[16] Published in 2018 by Peepal Tree Press, De Rightest Place – likened in setting to a Trinidadian Cheers – has been described as "a novel with a great deal of heart.

[17] In 2019, Jenkins was shortlisted for the inaugural RSL Christopher Bland Prize, set up by the Royal Society of Literature to encourage and celebrate older writers first published at the age of 50 or over.