Robert Edison Sandiford
Robert Edison Sandiford was born in Montreal 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 associate literary editor and then arts and entertainment editor of the Nation newspaper in Barbados. Sandiford’s short story collections include Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall (1995) and The Tree of Youth (2005). He has also published graphic story collections 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 a book publisher and video producer.
