Cherie S.A. Jones

'Wary of repossession, my breasts ran away….' (Mammaries, The Feminist Wire, 2015)

Author of 'How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House', forthcoming from TinderPress (UK), HarperCollins Canada and Little,Brown USA

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‘This last one I ate slowly, in small bites, chewing him well before swallowing. In between eating him, we talked. He wasn’t in pain – I’d guess he hardly even noticed when he lost another limb, another sliver of skin, a quivering chunk of back or thigh. My bites cut clean, without the ragged edge of wounding.’ (Some Men Are Salty’, PANK 2014)

When the Spirit Moves You…

December 9, 2019

We know all about spirits in Barbados. We are so familiar with the other-worldly aspect of existence that we happily acknowledge it in our speech as a matter of course. Expressions like ‘My spirit don’t meet hers‘ (Intuitively, there’s something about her I don’t like) or ‘I going do it when the spirit move me‘ … More When the Spirit Moves You…

Step away from the manuscript

November 27, 2019

Three weeks ago I heard back from my editors, about the first set of edits I’d submitted for How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House. For the most part, they were very happy with my revisions. There were, however, still a few more changes to be made. And so we entered round 2 of the editing … More Step away from the manuscript

The Writer as Mommy

October 5, 2019

It was not that the writing made me neglect my mothering, as is sometimes the case. Rather, it was that the recent sustained focus on the edits to my novel led to a subsequent severe case of guilt-parenting. And so it was that I found myself in a dark movie theatre at 3 p.m. last … More The Writer as Mommy