About the Author

Vjange Hazle was born in Jamaica and migrated to the United States in 1989. She began publishing in the 1980s in the Gleaner's Sunday Magazine and later in the Caribbean magazine Focus 1983. Her short stories have also been published in The Caribbean Writer-Volume 4 and New Writing from the Caribbean edited by Erika J. Waters. Her stories and poetry have also appeared in numerous other publications. In 2004, she published country gal a foreign-volume 1, a collection of stories which first appeared in The West Indian-American Newspaper in Hartford, CT as Chit-Chat. Her novel, The Master's Daughter, was published in 2016. A graduate of Mico Teachers' College (now Mico University College) in Jamaica, she holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Eastern Connecticut State University, a Master of Arts in Communication from the University of Hartford, and a Master of Arts in English from Central Connecticut State University. She is currently a doctoral student in Educational Leadership in Higher Education at Central Connecticut State University.