Jacob Ross FRSL (born 1956)[1] is a Grenada-born poet, playwright, journalist, novelist and creative writing tutor, based in the UK since 1984.
[5] Ross has toured and lectured widely, including in Germany, Korea, the Middle East, and The Caribbean.
[7] He was Writer-in-Residence at St. George's University in Grenada and the Darat Al Funun Arts Academy in Jordan in 2001.
[6] In 1986 his first collection of short stories, Song for Simone, was published and was described as "one of the most powerful crystallisation of Caribbean childhood since George Lamming's In the Castle of My Skin.
[5] Ross is also the editor of Closure: Contemporary Black British Short Stories, published by Peepal Tree Press.