Anne Walmsley taught for three years at Westwood High School in Jamaica, and for nine years travelled throughout the Caribbean as Longman's Caribbean editor. She has also taught English at a Grammar School in London, and worked for the BBC Schools Television Service. She has been active with the Association for the Teaching of Caribbean and Africa Literature. Now a freelance editor and writer, she is engaged in research on the Caribbean Artists Movement, 1966-72, of which she was a member. She lives in South London with her husband, a cat, and many books.