Imam Baksh is a Guyanese writer who enjoys tales of magic, monsters and heroes. He is a three-time winner of the Henry Josiah Prize for Children’s Stories. Children of the Spider (Blue Moon Publishing), winner of the 2015 Burt Award for Caribbean Literature, is the tale of a lost girl who seeks the power to stop a great evil. Her quest carries her across modern-day Guyana as she gains allies and dodges the monstrous fanatics who enslaved her people.
