Diana McCaulay

Diana McCaulay is a Jamaican environmental activist and writer. Her most recent novel, A House for Miss Pauline was published February 2025. A two-time regional (Caribbean) winner of the Commonwealth Short Story prize, in 2012 and 2022, she has authored five novels Dog-Heart, Huracan, Gone to Drift, White Liver Gal, and Daylight Come. She was awarded the Norman Washington Manley Award in 2021 for Excellence for Protection and Preservation of the Environment and in 2022, a Gold Musgrave Medal for her contribution to literature. In 2024, she won the Elizabeth Nunez Short Story Prize for writers resident in the Caribbean.

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