Jennifer Rahim is a senior lecturer in literature at the University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago. She is a critic, poet and short-story writer. Her articles have appeared in MaComere, The Journal of West Indian Literature, Small Axe and Anthurium. She is co-editor of two collections of essays, Beyond Borders: Cross Culturalism and the Caribbean Canon (UWI Press 2009) and Created in the West Indies: Caribbean Perspectives on VS Naipaul (Ian Randle, 2010). Her creative publications include three volumes of poetry: Mothers Are Not the Only Linguists (1992), Between the Fence and the Forest (2002) and Approaching Sabbaths (2009) and a collection of short stories, Songster and Other Stories (2007). Approaching Sabbaths was awarded the 2010 Casa de las Am?ricas Prize for best book in the category Caribbean Literature in English or Creole.