Daddy
When was it that I
lost her
A small child finding
her mother
sobbing
Kim Robinson-Walcott is a short fiction writer, poet, book editor, and scholar who served for many years as editor of Caribbean Quarterly (University of the West Indies, 2010–23) and Jamaica Journal (Institute of Jamaica, 2002–24). Among her publications are the children’s books Dale’s Mango Tree (1992), Pat the Cat (2018) and Pat the Cat and the Gangsta Bat (2024), all of which she also illustrated. She is the co-author of The How to Be Jamaican Handbook (1987) and Jamaican Art (1989, 2011) as well as the author of Out of Order: Anthony Winkler and White West Indian Writing (2006) and the short story collection You Have to Harden Your Heart in Times Like These: Stories of Kingston (2024).