Denise Laidler is a Jamaican born, Montclair based writer, an international communication consultant, and travel and culture writer. She was long listed for the 2024 Commonwealth Short Story contest for her short story Digging Two Graves. She has written for Mariott Bonvoy Traveler, The Jamaica Tourist Board, Rockefeller Foundation, American Express, Facebook among others. Previously, she was lead and feature writer for media stalwarts including Black Enterprise, Essence magazine, Time Inc., Huffington Post and others. Recently, her short story Where Dreams Die was published on French platform, Anthro Circus; Caribbean Writer Vol. 27 and awarded the anthology’s David Hough Literary Prize. She is 2019 Kimbilio Fiction Writing Fellow completing her debut novel, Journey to the Land of Look Behind.
POETRY: Issue 35