Linda M. Deane

Linda M. Deane is an English-born writer and editor living in Barbados.

The daughter of Barbadian parents, she received most of her secondary school education in England[1] and earned a BA degree in Comparative American Studies from the University of Warwick.

She works as a tutor at the primary school level for creative writing.

[3] She is also a poet and essayist, and her work has appeared in various publications, including Poui, The Caribbean Writer and Bim: Arts for the 21st Century, and in the anthology The Understanding Between Foxes and Light.

[2] In 2006, she received first prize in the Frank Collymore Literary Endowment, also receiving the Prime Minister's Award, for her collection of poetry Cutting Road Blues: A Narrative.