About Vanessa Spence
Vanessa Spence
Vanessa Spence was born in 1961 in Kingston. Jamaica. She was named after her great aunt, Vanessa Bell, of Bloomsbury Group fame. She grew up in Jamaica and was later educated at Marlborough College in England and at the Universities of Oxford and Yale. She has lived in Sierra Leone, Pakistan and India. As an economist, she has worked in privatization and development banking. She lives in the Blue Mountains.
Books
The Roads Are Down, Caribbean Writers Series, Heinemann, 1993
Winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Novel, Canada and the Caribbean, 1994
French translation, Terrain Glissant, Dapper 2001
Short stories
Every Single Thing, Mississippi Review, Vol. 24, No. 3, Spring 1996
The Quick Visit, in At Home The Green Remains, Caribbean Quarterly, 2003
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