AWARDS

2020 Brown Foundation/Dora Maar Fellowship, Menerbes, France

2016 OCM Bocas Award for Caribbean Literature, Non-Fiction Category

2016 Appreciation Award, Nonsuch Primary School Heritage Club

2015 Museums Connect Grant, U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and the American Alliance of Museums

2014 Canute A. Brodhurst Prize, Best Short Fiction, The Caribbean Writer

2014 Museums Connect Grant, U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and the American Alliance of Museums

2009 UNESCO/Fulbright Fellow, Paris, France

2008 Fulbright Fellow, Rabat, Morocco

2000 The Arthur Schomburg Award for Excellence in the Humanities, New York University

1998 Jamaica Cultural Development Commission Awards (three awards in fiction and poetry)

1997 Oral History Association Fellowship, New Orleans, Louisiana

1997 Jamaica Cultural Development Commission Awards (five awards in fiction and poetry)

1994 James Michener Creative Writing Fellowship, The Caribbean Writers Summer Institute, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida