Vanessa Spence

Vanessa Spence (born 1961, Kingston, Jamaica) is a Jamaican novelist. Her first novel, The Roads Are Down, won the 1994 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Best First Novel, Canada and the Caribbean.^[1]

She grew up in Jamaica, and studied at the University of Oxford, and Yale University.^[2] She works as an economist, in Kingston. She lives in the Blue Mountains.

Awards

• 1994, Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Best First Novel, Canada and the Caribbean

Works

• The Roads Are Down, Heinemann, 1993, ISBN 978-0-435-98930-9