Robert Edison Sandiford
Robert Edison Sandiford was born in Montreal, Quebec, in 1968 to Barbadian parents. After obtaining a B.A. in English Literature from McGill University in 1990, he worked briefly as a clerk for a wholesale bookseller while writing short stories, articles and comic scripts. His writing has appeared in The Globe and Mail, The Antigonish Review, Caribbean Travel & Life, Calabash, and The Comics Journal, among other publications. From 1997 to 2001, he was the associate literary editor then arts and entertainment editor of the Nation newspaper in Barbados. Sandiford is the author of two short story collections, Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall (1995) and The Tree of Youth (2005); the graphic story collections Attractive Forces (1997) and Stray Moonbeams (2002); and a travel memoir, Sand for Snow: A Caribbean-Canadian Chronicle (2003). He is a founding editor of ArtsEtc: The Premier Cultural Guide to Barbados, and has worked as book publisher and video producer.
