Collection: Brenda Flanagan

Brenda Flanagan was born in Trinidad in 1949, the twelfth of fourteen children in an impoverished family. She is the author the prize-winning novel, You Alone Are Dancing (Peepal Tree Press), a collection of short stories, In Praise of Island Women and Other Crimes (KaRu Press, 2004), and Allah in the Islands, a sequel to You Alone Are Dancing. Brenda Flanagan teaches Creative Writing, Caribbean and African American Literatures at Davidson College, North Carolina. She is also a United States cultural ambassador, and has served in Kazakstan, Chad and Panama.