L.A Wanliss

Lesley-Ann Wanliss has been accepted into the MFA in Dramaturgy at Columbia University. She is currently completing a manuscript for submission to the MFA in Creative Writing Program at The UWI St. Augustine. She was the recipient of the CARICOM-CANADA Emerging Leaders Scholarship and was the first Visiting Researcher in the MFA in creative Writing department at The University of Guelph. She is published in Cordite Poetry Review, Susumba Bag, The Caribbean Writer, The Jamaica Journal, Small Axe Literary Journal. She was also the recipient of the Second Place Prize in the Short Fiction component of the Small Axe Literary Competition. Her theatre productions Belly Woman and December have been awarded Best Production Award at the Tallawah Competition in 2012 and 2005 respectively.