Gemma Robinson is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Stirling, and previously lectured in English at Newcastle University. She edited Martin Carter's University of Hunger: Collected poems & Selected Prose (Bloodaxe Books, 2006), and co-edited the anthology Out of Bounds (Bloodaxe Books / Newcastle University, 2012) with Jackie Kay and James Procter. She edited Over Seas: A Transnational Caribbean, The Arts Journal Special Issue, 2.2 (March 2006), and contributes to the Guyanese newspaper, Starbroek News. Her many other publications include articles on Guyanese writers on the radio, Martin Carter, Wilson Harris, teaching 'the Americas', Caribbean manuscripts, and Caribbean protest writing.