Jean Buffong

Jean Buffong (born 1943) is a Grenadian-British novelist and poet.
Life.
Born in Grenada, Buffong settled in the United Kingdom and worked as a lawyer. She started writing fiction in her early forties. Her work consists of poetry, short stories, novels and plays, and is centred around her Grenadian childhood. "Under the Silk Cotton Tree" (1992) is set in Grenada, though family connections between Grenada and Trinidad bring out the interconnectedness of the Caribbean and the importance of migration in everyday life.
Buffong has been welfare officer for the West Indian Standing Conference, an active member of the Caribbean Women Writers' Alliance and the Chairperson of the Ananse Society. She divides her time between London and The Gambia.