A major voice in Caribbean literature, Erna Brodber's work addresses the history, memory and identity of the African Diaspora. Her novels include Nothing's Mat (2014), Louisiana (1997), Myal (1988 and Jane and Louisa Will Soon Come Home (1980). She has also created blackspace, a place for performances, ceremonies of remembrance, and "groundings" which aim to recover lost histories and engage what she calls the "unfinished task of emancipation." Erna Brodber is a recipient of the Wyndham-Campbell Prize for Literature from Yale University; the Prince Claus Award (2006); the Musgrave Medal of Jamaica (1999) and an honorary doctorate from the University fo the West Indies. She lives and works in the village of Woodside, St. Mary, Jamaica.