Beverley-Ann Scott

BEVERLEY-ANN SCOTT is a medical doctor and author of two West Indian novels: The Stolen Cascadura (2007), and Is America She Gone? (2013). She was born and raised in Trinidad and Tobago where she has spent most of her adult life. She holds a BSc. in Information Systems and Management from the University of London and a Doctor of Medicine degree from Our Lady of Fatima University, Manila, Philippines.

Dr. Scott worked in the Port-of-Spain General Hospital and Mt. Hope Medical Sciences Complex between 2010 and 2014. She migrated to the United States in 2014 and worked at Elmhurst Hospital in Queens, New York as well as Coney Island Hospital, Brooklyn in the area of Quality Management. She is currently pursuing a General Surgery Residency in Brooklyn, New York.

She speaks often to ‘at risk’ groups in Trinidad and has spoken to incarcerated women at the Trinidad Women’s Prison, at several secondary schools, to visually impaired persons, and at the St.Jude’s Home for Girls in Port-of-Spain.

Her novels deal with issues such as HIV/AIDS, domestic violence, class and gender inequality, homosexuality, crime, violence, drug abuse, and others. She aims to create a repository of literary works that will engage Caribbean people everywhere in discussions that will help to unify them and allow them to appreciate their uniqueness.