Sharma Taylor
Author of What a Mother’s Love Don’t Teach You
Sharma Taylor's novel What a Mother’s Love Don’t Teach You was published in July 2022 by Virago Press in the UK. She won the 2020 Wasafiri Queen Mary New Writing Prize, the 2020 Frank Collymore Literary Endowment Award, and the Bocas Lit Fest’s 2019 Johnson and Amoy Achong Caribbean Writers Prize. Four times 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.