Diana McCaulay is a Jamaican environmental activist and writer, a lifelong resident of the capital city of Kingston. Her forthcoming novel, A House for Miss Pauline, was published by Dialogue Books in the UK and Algonquin Books in the USA in February 2025.
She has already written five novels:
DOG-HEART (Peepal Tree Press )
HURACAN (Peepal Tree Press)
GONE TO DRIFT (Papillote Press and HarperCollins)
WHITE LIVER GAL (self-published)
DAYLIGHT COME (Peepal Tree Press)
Diana has also self published a collection of her newspaper columns called WRITING JAMAICA. She has won the Commonwealth Short Story Prize for the Caribbean region twice, in 2012 and 2022, and most recently, won the Elizabeth Nunez Short Story Prize for writers resident in the Caribbean at the Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival in New York in September 2024. She was awarded the Norman
Washington Manley Award in 2021 for Excellence for Protection and Preservation of the Environment and in 2022, a Gold Musgrave Medal for distinguished eminence in the field of literature by the Council of the Institute of Jamaica.
