Angela Barry received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Bermuda Arts Council in 2017 (Photograph supplied)
Angela Barry
Bermudian by birth, Angela Barry lived abroad for more than 20 years – in England, France, The Gambia, Senegal and the Seychelles – before returning to Bermuda, where she worked as a lecturer until retiring in 2016. She holds a PhD in Creative Writing from Lancaster University, for which she worked on cross-cultural projects, reflecting her connections with the African diaspora. Her work has been published in journals including The Massachusetts Review, The Bermudian magazine, The Caribbean Writer and BIM: Arts for the 21rst Century. She is the author of Endangered Species and Other Stories (2002) and the novel, Goree: Point of Departure (2010). She is a contributor to the Commonwealth Writers anthology, So Many Islands: Stories from the Caribbean, Mediterranean, Indian Ocean and Pacific (2018) and also to New Daughters of Africa (2019). (from Peepal Tree Press)
Bermudian by birth, Angela Barry lived abroad for more than 20 years – in England, France, The Gambia, Senegal and the Seychelles – before returning to Bermuda, where she worked as a lecturer until retiring in 2016. She holds a PhD in Creative Writing from Lancaster University, for which she worked on cross-cultural projects, reflecting her connections with the African diaspora. Her work has been published in journals including The Massachusetts Review, The Bermudian magazine, The Caribbean Writer and BIM: Arts for the 21rst Century. She is the author of Endangered Species and Other Stories (2002) and the novel, Goree: Point of Departure (2010). She is a contributor to the Commonwealth Writers anthology, So Many Islands: Stories from the Caribbean, Mediterranean, Indian Ocean and Pacific (2018) and also to New Daughters of Africa (2019). (from Peepal Tree Press)
