Colin Channer

Colin Channer is the author of national bestselling novels Waiting in Vain and Satisfy My Soul as well as the novellas I'm Still Waiting and The Girl with the Golden Shoe. He is the editor of the groundbreaking anthology Iron Balloons: Hit Fiction from Jamaica’s Calabash Writer’s Workshop. His essays, criticism and short fiction have appeared in the New York Times, Bomb, the Times Literary Supplement, Renaissance Noire, Obsidian III and Essence. Colin Channer was born in Kingston, Jamaica, where he began his writing career in high school as the secret (and expensive) creator of love poems and amorous correspondence on behalf of other boys. He is the Newhouse Visiting Professor in Creative Writing at Wellesley College in Massachusetts. Channer is also the founder and artistic director of The Calabash Literary Festival.