Somebody Tell My Story! (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781986238762)

Collette D. Ward Robinson hails from Manchester, Jamaica, and was educated at Beaumont's Preparatory, DeCarteret College, Knox Community College and the University of the West Indies. Her professional career has spanned over thirty years and has largely involved social policy analysis in the public sector. Her hobbies include creative writing and singing, and she has written numerous songs and poems and dabbled a bit in the writing of plays and skits. Her first published work was Take Three Giant Steps! A Vision 2030 Jamaica Reader, published by LMH Publishing Ltd. In 2014. The book is listed as a Supplementary Text for Literature by the Ministry of Education in Jamaica. Mrs. Robinson has a talent and love for poetry and has won several awards in national competitions. This anthology is the first such compilation of select pieces of her work. Her other published works are Where the Heart Is and Through My Eyes. Along with the awards noted for specific pieces in this volume, Mrs. Robinson has also won trophies for Best Poet in both the Adult (2015) and Intermediate (2016) reader categories in the Creative Writing Competition of the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission, and has also been named as the Outstanding Writer in 2015 and 2016.