Elizabeth Walcott-HackshawElizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw was born in Trinidad and is Professor of French Literature and Creative Writing at the University of the West Indies. Her first collection of short stories, Four Taxis Facing North, was published in 2007 and translated into Italian and French. Her first novel, Mrs. B was published by Peepal Tree Press in 2014. Mrs B, was shortlisted for the “Best Book Fiction” in The Guyana Prize for Literature Award for 2014. Walcott-Hackshaw presently lives in the Santa Cruz Valley with her family; she has recently completed another collection of short stories and is working on a book of essays on trauma in Caribbean fiction. Read More Read Less