Erna Brodber is an award-winning novelist and independent scholar. Her many publications include the novels Nothing’s Mat, The Rainmaker’s Mistake, Louisiana, Myal, and Jane and Louisa Will Soon Come Home, and the nonfiction works The Second Generation of Freemen in Jamaica, 1907–1944, The Continent of Black Consciousness: On the History of the African Diaspora from Slavery to the Present, and Woodside, Pear Tree Grove P.O..