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Sylvia Gilfillian
Sylvia Gilfillian is an educator and writer who has influenced numerous successful professionals working in education, law, and journalism today. She has taught both in Jamaica and...view moreSylvia Gilfillian is an educator and writer who has influenced numerous successful professionals working in education, law, and journalism today. She has taught both in Jamaica and the USA and has a passion for sociolinguistics and creative writing. In her writing, she experiments with the total language continuum of her homeland, Jamaica, and allows her complex characters to tell their stories in the language of the heart that comes naturally to them. Her characters range from the unlettered to the erudite but each character occupies the page with equal presence, regardless of language. Her purpose is to present to the world the often disregarded, marginalized but psychologically complex human beings who are not the Jamaicans of tourist brochures. They are the keepers of culture and memory who are often used as inspiration for story telling but too often remain on the fringes of events.
Sylvia is a graduate of the University of the West Indies where she received two departmental awards in English as an undergraduate and a graduate scholarship. She is also a graduate of the Fairleigh Dickenson MFA program and has taught college in Jamaica and the United States. The Road to Timnath, her debut novel, was shortlisted for the Una Marson Prize in 2015. The Sequel to The Road to Timnath is already in the works.view less