JACINTH HOWARD was born in the Caribbean Islands of St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Her childhood love for reading and literature led to the pursuit of Literatures in English at the tertiary level. She earned a BA (2014), MPhil (2017), and PhD (2020) in English Language and Literature/Letters from the University of the West Indies Cave Hill Campus, Barbados, where she currently teaches Literature.
Her published critical work focuses on speculative fiction and West Indian fiction. Her work can be found in Journal of West Indian Literature (JWIL), SFRA Review, Afro-Caribbean Women’s Writing and Early American Literature, and more.
She also writes prose fiction and poetry, some of which has been published in BIM: Arts for the 21st Century, Intersect Antigua-Barbuda, Disaster Matters, and others.
Dr. Howard’s creative work focuses on themes of motherhood, post-colonialism, nature, and history. In 2020, her manuscript The Mother Island, her debut poetry collection, won the second prize at the Frank Collymore Literary Endowment Award competition.
She currently lives with her husband and two children in Barbados.
Learn more about Dr. Howard's work:
BLOG: https://thelightinthecracks.com/
INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/thelightinthecracks/
Author Photo from Barbados Today, March 18, 2025
