Dwight Thompson

Dwight Thompson is the award-winning author of the novel Death Register and has published short stories in PREE and The Caribbean Writer. He won the Charlotte and Isidor Paiewonsky Prize, was short-listed for the 2012 Small Axe Literary Competition, and was long-listed for the 2021 and 2022 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. My Own Dear People is his second novel. He was born and raised in Jamaica and currently works at an international school in Hiroshima, Japan.