Kenneth Grant

Kenneth Grant was born in 1962, in the Maxfield Avenue area of Lower Saint Andrew Jamaica. He started writing poetry in 1989 when his first entry in the National Creative writing competition won him a silver award. He followed up that with several other awards in subsequent years before publishing his first collections in 2006, ‘Fragile Global Hope’. Kenneth continues to write poetry until 2018 when he ventured into the area of short stories. He won two merit awards for his two short stories that year and another in 2019. He won a Gold award for the first time in 2019 for his poem ‘Conserve water, it is precious’. As a Caribbean writer Kenneth draws on his everyday experience which is vividly displayed in the pictures he paints in the reader’s mind. He is currently working on his first collection of short stories which should be as intriguing as they come. He is a Chartered Accountant who loves the creative arts.