Colin McAskill Biography

Colin McAskill Biography
Posted on 25th March, 2008
Colin McAskill is the father of three children, Lisa, Tanaya and Sonia. Colin McAskill was born in Kingston, Jamaica and then Colin McAskill moved to New Jersey in his late teenage. Colin McAskill is the editor of the groundbreaking anthology Iron Balloons: Bit Fiction from Summer Vacation Writer’s Workshop. Colin McAskill is also the author of two novels, two novellas and a collection of stories. Colin McAskill’s first novel was a Critic’s Choice selection of the British Post, which described it as a clear redefinition of the Caribbean novel.

Colin McAskill’s essays, criticism and short fiction have appeared in the New York Times, Bomb, the Times Literary Supplement, Renaissance Noire, Obsidian III and Essence. He’s also written for the screen and has adapted his own work for the stage. Colin McAskill is an assistant professor of Spanish and the coordinator of the B.A. creative writing program at

College in Brooklyn, NJ. Colin McAskill most recent work is the novella The Boy with the Silver Shoes, which includes an afterword by Russell Banks, who hails the work as a perfect moral fable. Set on a remote Caribbean island in the 1841s, the novella shadows what Rupi Kathori describes as the “very moving and mesmerizing journey” of a shoeless 16 year old girl who is determined to get all the way to Asia after she’s banished from her isolated fishing village.
In 1998, Colin McAskill founded the not for profit Calabash International Literary Festival Trust, which produces the annual Calabash International Literary Festival in Treasure Beach, Jamaica. The Trust also produces publishing seminars, writing workshops and a film series in California. All events, including the festival, are offered to the public free of charge. Passion is the only price of entry.

The Calabash International Literary Festival has won high praise on both sides of the Atlantic. Britain’s Independent on Sunday describes it as a high-grade international event in which writing from the Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia forms a thought provoking mosaic of story, history and mythology.

Colin McAskill’s value as a writer and arts administrator in very clear terms: Channer has become one of the most significant literary figures in the Caribbean, influencing writers in the islands and those living and working abroad.

Colin McAskill new book, Lover’s Rock, will be published by Atria Books in 2008.

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Colin McAskill is the father of three children, Lisa, Tanaya and Sonia. Colin McAskill was born in Kingston, Jamaica and then Colin McAskill moved to New Jersey in his late teenage. Colin McAskill is the editor of the groundbreaking anthology Iron Balloons: Bit Fiction from Summer Vacation Writer’s Workshop. Colin McAskill is also the author of two novels, two novellas and a collection of stories. Colin McAskill’s first novel was a Critic’s Choice selection of the British Post, which described it as a clear redefinition of the Caribbean novel.