Wandeka Gayle is a Jamaican writer, a visual artist, and an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Spelman College. She earned her PhD in English with a Creative Writing (Fiction) concentration from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and is the author of Motherland and Other Stories (Peepal Tree Press 2020). Other writing has appeared in The Rumpus, Transition, Prairie Schooner, Interviewing the Caribbean, and other journals and magazines. Gayle’s writing and research has been supported by fellowships from the UNCF/Mellon Foundation, Hedgebrook, Kimbilio Fiction, The Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop, the Hurston/Wright Foundation, the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, Vermont Studio Center, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She also became an inaugural fellow for the Adisa Ancestry Artist Residency in her native Jamaica, where she continued work on her first novel, My Name is Sweet Thing.
POETRY: Issue 35