(Jenkins, Barbara) Barbara Jenkins is a Trinidadian writer. In her late sixties, after a teaching career and the exodus of her children, she came to writing. Her short stories have won several international awards, appearing in Pepperpot, Wasafiri, Small Axe, and the Caribbean Writer. Her debut collection, Sic Transit Wagon and Other Stories, was awarded the 2015 Guyana Caribbean Prize for Literature.
