Medita Wheatley, Author Medita Malone Wheatley was born in 1946 in Tortola, British Virgin Islands. She received her primary and secondary education in Tortola and Antigua. At the undergraduate level she studied Spanish, English, Education, and the Teaching of Reading at the University of the West Indies, College of...
Dr. Charles Wheatley, Author Dr. Charles Hugo Wheatley was born right here in Tortola on February 16, 1938 and was the oldest of 12 children of the late Alturo Wheatley and Marie Durante-Wheatley. The foundation for what has been a lengthy educational career started at the East End Methodist School...
Richard Georges, PoetRichard Georges is the first Virgin Islands Poet Laureate (2020) and the author of three collections of poetry, as well as essays and fiction. His most recent collection, Epiphaneia (2019), won the 2020 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature. His debut, Make Us All Islands(2017), was shortlisted for...
Linette Rabsatt, Author Linette Rabsatt is a Virgin Islands poet with roots in the BVI and USVI who began writing in 1996. You can find her work in her Kindle book, "Be Inspired: Poems by Linette Rabsatt" and on her blog, Words of Ribbon. Her poems and short stories have...
