Place of birth
Jamaica
Place of residence
United States of America
National identity
Jamaica
Gender
Female

Wandeka Gayle

Short biography
Wandeka Gayle is a Jamaican writer, visual artist, and Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Spelman College. She has been awarded writing fellowships from Kimbilio Fiction, Callaloo, the Hurston/Wright Foundation, and the Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing. Gayle has a PhD in English/Creative Writing from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in The Rumpus, Transition, Interviewing the Caribbean and other journals.