University of the West Indies

OS worked as a journalist, first with the Daily Gleaner in Jamaica and later with the Jamaica Information Service . After many years as a freelance writer in public relations, speech writing and publishing, she...

She has taught creative writing at many universities in North America, the Caribbean, Australia, and Europe. She is currently (2015) a Faculty member at the Humber School for Writers at Humber College in Toronto...

After winning the Commonwealth Writer's Prize in 1987, OS went on with her poetry book Gardening in the Tropics to receive the F. G. Bressani Literary prize in 1995. She won the Norman Washington Manley...