About Rachel Manley:
Rachel Manley is a Jamaican writer in verse and prose, born in Cornwall England, raised in Jamaica and currently residing in Canada. She is a daughter of former Jamaican Prime Minister Michael Manley. She edited Edna Manley's diaries, which were published in 1989. She won the Governor General's Award for English language non-fiction in 1997 for her memoir Drumblair: Memories of a Jamaican Childhood. She has since published more memoirs and some volumes of verse. Her other biographical works include Horses in her Hair, In My Father's Shade, and Slipstream.