Vanessa Spence

Vanessa Spence (born 1961, Kingston, Jamaica) is a Jamaican novelist. Her first novel, The Roads Are Down, won the 1994 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Best First Novel, Canada and the Caribbean.

Contents

• Vanessa Spence picks from ASOS SS 2017 collection
• Works
• Criticism
• References

She grew up in Jamaica, and studied at the Oxford University, and Yale University. She works, as an economist, in Kingston. She lives in the Blue Mountains.