Jamaican by birth and a Washington DC transplant, I gained years of experience working behind the scenes at Black Entertainment Television, a Viacom network. Before that, I was an actress in Jamaica’s National Pantomime and other productions, sharing the stage with some of the island's most iconic actors, including Charles Hyatt, Leonie Forbes, Brian Heap and Oliver Samuels. I was also an award-winning soprano under the tutelage of the esteemed musicologist Noel Dexter. I graduated with a B.A. in English Language and Literature from the University of Maryland, College Park. While in college, I wrote my first piece business writing for a Caribbean NGO. Water Therapy is my first published collections of poetry.  My new chapbook, “Luminescent Ships: Love Songs to Caribbean-American Life,” celebrates the diaspora in this region. My poetry has been featured on the international hunger activist website Poetry X Hunger and I have also performed in their showcases and events. I am one-third of the US-based Tamarind Arts Collective: A Caribbean Diaspora Writing, Media, and Performance Collective. Apart from picking out Bob Marley tunes on my guitar, I perform Caribbean folk music in the DC-Maryland-Virginia region. Bear, my cream-colored tabby cat, gives me no breathing room or private time. Yet he keeps me humble by trotting away quickly and hiding under my bed until I stop playing the guitar.