Leone Ross

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Biography

Leone Ross was born in Coventry, England, on 26 June 1969. She grew up in Jamaica, and studied at the University of the West Indies and at the City University in London, where she now lives. She has worked as a journalist for The Voice newspaper in London and as a researcher for LWT as well as contributing to a wide range of magazines and newspapers in Britain and America, including The Guardian and The Sunday Times. In 2000, she received a London Arts Board Writers' Award.

Leone Ross teaches creative writing and was a Fellow at Trinity College Dublin in 2001. Presently she works as an Associate Lecturer at Cardiff University, Birkbeck College and the City Literary Institute.

She is the author of two novels, All the Blood is Red (1996) and Orange Laughter (1999).

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Genres (in alphabetical order)

Fiction, Short stories

Bibliography

Creation Fire: A CAFRA Anthology of Caribbean Women's Poetry (contributor) ister Vision Press (Canada), 1988

Born Fi Dead: A Journey Through the Jamaican Underworld Canongate, 1995

All the Blood is Red Angela Royal Publishing, 1996

Burning Words, Flaming Images (contributor) SAKS Media, 1996

Wild Ways: Stories of Women on the Road (contributor) Sceptre, 1997

Orange Laughter Angela Royal Publishing, 1999

Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora (contributor) Warner, 2000

IC3: A Penguin Collection of Black British Writing (contributor) Penguin, 2000

Time Out London Short Stories, Volume 2 (contributor) Penguin, 2000

Brown Sugar: A Collection of Black Erotica (contributor) Dutton/Plume (USA), 2001

England Calling: 24 Stories for the 21st Century (contributor) Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2001

Whispers in the Walls: New Black and Asian Voices from Birmingham (editor with Yvonne Brisset) Tindal Street, 2001

Brown Sugar 2: Great One Night Stands (contributor) Simon & Schuster (USA), 2003

Brown Sugar 3: Opposites Attract (contributor) Penguin (USA), 2004

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