Summer Edward

Summer Edward (born 1986) is a Trinidadian-born writer, children's editor, educator, literary activist and children's literature specialist based in the USA. In 2010, at the age of 24, she founded Anansesem ezine, the first children’s literature publication in the English-speaking Caribbean and has since served as its Editor-in-Chief. She is one of the Caribbean's youngest literary editors. Anansesem has published some of the most distinctive and distinguished voices in Caribbean literature for young people including Floella Benjamin, Gerald Hausman, Ibi Zoboi, Itah Sadu, Lynn Joseph, Margarita Engle, Nadia L. Hohn, Olive Senior and Vashanti Rahaman.

Edward currently teaches at the University of the West Indies.