Sharma Taylor

The debut novel of Barbados-based, Jamaican lawyer Sharma Taylor, What a Mother’s Love Don’t Teach You, was bought at auction by Virago and will appear in 2022. She won the 2020 Wasafiri Queen Mary New Writing Prize, the 2020 Frank Collymore Literary Endowment Award and the 2019 Bocas Lit Fest’s Johnson and Amoy Achong Caribbean Writers Prize. Twice shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, she was also a finalist for the 2020 Elizabeth Nunez Award for Writers in the Caribbean in the Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival’s Caribbean Fiction Writers Competition.