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Jacob Ross
was born in Grenada, and has lived in Britain since 1984. He is a poet, playwright, journalist, novelist and a tutor of Narrative Craft. He is the author of acclaimed short story collections, Song for Simone (1986) and A Way to Catch the Dust (1999); co-editor with Joan Anim-Addo of Voice, Memory, Ashes
(1998); co-author with Kwesi Owusu of Behind
the Masquerade: The Story of Notting Hill Carnival (1986); Ridin’ n Risin and Turf
- Anthologies of Short Stories with Andrea Enisuoh.
He edited Artrage, Britain's leading Intercultural Arts magazine. He currently lectures in creative writing and international literature in England and abroad.
Hailed as 'a writer of formidable technical range and emotional depth', Ross's work has been critically acclaimed internationally.
In 2006 Jacob Ross was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was one of
the judges of the V.S. Pritchett Memorial Prize in 2008 and the Tom-Gallon Award in 2009. His first novel, Pynter Bender, was published in September 2008. Jacob
Ross recently won an Arts Council of England Award for his current novel in progress, The Village Above the Wind.
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