Trumpet Fiction: Tiphanie Yanique, Annecy Báez, and Jacqueline Bishop

 
Tiphanie Yanique is the winner of a Boston Review Fulbright Scholarship increative writing, and a Pushcart Prize. She holds an MFA from the University of Houston. Her fiction, nonfiction, and poetry can be found in various publications including Transition, Callaloo, Sonora and the London Magazine. She is a professor of creative writing and Caribbean literature at Drew University, and currently is the review editor of Calabash and a fellow with Teachers & Writers Collaborative. Her chapbook is called the Saving Work and won the Kore Press fiction chapbook prize.

Annecy Báez writes poetry and fiction.  Her most recent literary work, "the Red Shoes", was translated by Ruth Herrera and appeared in Spanish as"Tacones Rojos"  in Caudal, a literary journal in the Dominican Republic,"the Silence of Angels" appeared in. Callaloo, an African American LiteraryJournal from John Hopkins University,  other works have appeared in VinylDonuts an anthology from the National Book Foundation,  Brujula and inTertuliando/Hanging Out, a bilingual literary anthology published by Hunter Caribbean Studies and Latinarte. She is the member of Daisy Cocco DeFillipis  Latina writer’s group, "La Tertulia".  Annecy Báez is the winner of the 2007 Miguel Mårmol Prize for her collection of short stories, My Daughter's Eyes and OtherStories. 

Jacqueline Bishop was born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica, before coming tothe US to attend college and to be reunited with her mother. She is the founding editor of Calabash: A Journal of Caribbean Arts & Letters, and is presently editing a film on a group of Jamaican untutored artists called The Intuitives. She has been published in The Caribbean Writer, Crab Orchard Review, Macomere, Renaissance Noire and Wasafiri, amongst other journals. She lives and works in New York City, the 15th parish of Jamaica. The River's Song is her first novel. She is also the author of Fauna, a collection of poems and My Mother Who Is Me: Life Stories from Jamaican Women in New York.