Forbes, Curdella

Curdella Forbes was born in Jamaica, in Claremont, Hanover. She is a teacher by profession and has been a member of the academic staff at the University of West Indies since 1990: from 1990 to 1995 as Resident Tutor, School of Continuing Studies in Western Jamaica, and since 1995 as a lecturer in the Department of Literatures in English, Mona, Jamaica. As well as Songs of Silence, she has written a collection of stories for young teenagers entitled Flying with Icarus and Other Stories (Walker Books, forthcoming) and has contributed to an anthology, Survivor (Walker Books, 2002). She is current...