In The Gift of Music and Song: Interviews with Jamaican Women Writers (Peepal Tree Press), Jacqueline Bishop — winner of the 2016 OCM Bocas Prize for Non-Fiction — brings together conversations with eighteen writers, ranging from icons such as Lorna Goodison, Olive Senior, and Velma Pollard to younger voices like Tanya Shirley, Ann-Margaret Lim, and Millicent A.A. Graham. These interviews create “a space for these writers to talk deeply about writing back to their homeland; about being female voices from Jamaica, how one should represent the country, its rhythms and cadences, and what it means to be a female writer in the world today.”