Jamaica Kincaid was born in Antigua in 1949. Since publishing her debut story collection At the Bottom of the River in 1983, Kincaid has written five acclaimed novels, including Annie John, Lucy, and, most recently, See Now Then. Her nonfiction includes My Brother, a chronicle of her brother’s battle with AIDS, as well as A Small Place and Among Flowers. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Lannan Literary Award for Fiction, the Prix Femina étranger, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the Clifton Fadiman Medal, and, in 2017, the Dan David Prize for Literature. In 2022, she received the Hadada Award from The Paris Review. She is Professor of African and African American Studies in Residence at Harvard University.