Dr. Jacinth Browne-Howard
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Dr. Jacinth Browne-Howard (Howard) is a Vincentian-Barbadian researcher and Temporary Lecturer at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, where she teaches poetry, fiction, and Caribbean literature.
Her background in education includes more than ten years of teaching from the secondary through to tertiary levels. She was Assistant Chief Examiner of English Literature at CXC (CSEC) for three years. She was also Intersect Antigua-Barbuda’s 2024-2025 Artist-In-Residence.
Jacinth writes both poetry and fiction. Her collection, The Mother Island, won 2nd prize in the 2021 Frank Collymore Literary Endowment. In 2023, the work was also featured as part of the Caribbean delegation selected by UNESCO Transcultura, and Jacinth was invited as a guest of honour at the Marche de la Poesie, Paris. Her fiction has been published in BIM Magazine and others. Her story "White Noise" was shortlisted for the Bocas Caribbean Literary Festival (BCLF) short story contest in 2023 and another longlisted in 2022 for the Commonwealth Short Story contest.
She is an editor at Poui: Cave Hill Journal of Creative Writing. Her research interests include Caribbean speculative fiction, science fiction, West Indian poetry, Caribbean Indigeneity, and Black women's writing. Her critical work appears in JWIL, SFRA Review, the Routledge Handbook of Co-futurisms, Afro-Caribbean Women’s Writing, Early American Literature, and others. Her forthcoming essays will appear in The Routledge Handbook of Latinx Visions: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Gothic and Horror as well The Liverpool Handbook of Environmental Science Fiction.
As a mother of two, the maternal, as well as women's rights and issues, are central to her personal philosophies. She deeply believes in the work of community movements and views participation and leadership in local theater groups, library/bookshop talks, book clubs, drives, author spotlights, poetry open mics, contests, writing workshops, online critique spaces, as well as cultural and charity initiatives as necessary, modern avenues of preserving the Caribbean's literary and scholarly foundation.
