Get to Know Our New Artist-in-Residence
Dr. Jacinth Browne-Howard, Writer, Lecturer, Editor, Lover of Literature
Photo by Jannah Browne
Intersect Antigua-Barbuda is delighted to announce its second Artist-In-Residence, hailing from the nation of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Dr. Jacinth Browne-Howard!
Dr. Browne-Howard holds a PhD in Literatures in English from the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill. There, she teaches courses in poetry, fiction, and creative writing. She also serves as an associate editor of the POUi literary journal.
Additionally, she teaches English Language and Literature at the secondary school level. Her research interests include Caribbean speculative fiction, Indigenous studies, West Indian poetry, and Caribbean women’s writing.
Her creative work includes her recently published poetry collection The Mother Island which won 2nd place in the 2021 FCLE competition. The collection deals with matters of identity, motherhood and womanhood in the Caribbean.
In 2023, she was selected as part of the Caribbean delegation of poets for the UNESCO Trancultura Poetry programme at the 40e Marché de la Poésie. Recently, her fiction was longlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Competition (2022) and shortlisted for the BCLF (2023). Her fiction also appears in BIM magazine, Intersect and Disaster Matters.
Her critical work appears in journals and anthologies such as JWIL, the SFRA Review, Afro-Caribbean Women’s Writing and Early American Literature and the Routledge Handbook of Co-futurisms among others. Jacinth enjoys participating in Bookstagram as well as reading and writing groups in her spare time.
She lives in Barbados with her husband and children.
Follow her literary journey on Instagram at the handle, thelightinthecracks.
