Wandeka Gayle is a Jamaican writer, visual artist, and a professor of creative writing at Spelman College. Her collection of short stories, Motherland and Other Stories (Peepal Tree Press in 2020), features one of her paintings, 'Mandeville House.' Gayle started painting professionally in 2005 and has shown her work in Jamaica and the US. Her art has been featured on Smile Jamaica It's Morning Time (TVJ), in Focus Magazine, Da Vibe Magazine, and the Southwestern Review. more