Wandeka Gayle
Author of Motherland and Other Stories
Wandeka Gayle is the author of Motherland and Other Stories (Peepal Tree Press 2020). She is a Jamaican writer, visual artist, and Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Spelman College. She earned her Ph.D. in English/Creative Writing from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and has received writing fellowships from Kimbilio Fiction, Callaloo, the Hurston/Wright Foundation, and the Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing. Her writing has appeared in The Rumpus, Prairie Schooner, Transition, Interviewing the Caribbean and other journals and magazines.