Summer Edward
Summer Edward is a Trinidadian American writer, children's book editor, educator, children's book specialist, and Caribbean children's literature advocate based in the USA. In 2010, at the age of 24, she founded Anansesem ezine, the first publication devoted to coverage of English-language Caribbean children's literature and served as its editor-in-chief for 10 years. At 26, she became one of the Caribbean's youngest literary editors. Anansesem has published some of the most distinctive and distinguished voices in Caribbean literature for young people including Floella Benjamin, Gerald Hausman, Ibi Zoboi, Itah Sadu, Lynn Joseph, Margarita Engle, Nadia L. Hohn, Olive Senior and Vashanti Rahaman.
