Professor of Afro-Hispanic Studies in the Faculty of Humanities and Education, at The University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. Paulette Ramsay is a researcher, literary critic and writer of prose fiction and poetry. She has published two novels (Aunt Jen and Letters Home) and four collections of poetry (Under BasilLeaves, October Afternoon, Star Apple Blue and Avocado Green, and This Thing That is Not a Thing)