Jamaica Kincaid recently edited The Best American Travel Writing of 2005; published Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalayas (2004) and Mr. Potter (2003). Other works include The Autobiography of My Mother(1995), Lucy (1990) and Annie John (1985).

She won the Prix Femina Etranger for her memoir, My Brother in 2000, a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1989, a PEN/Faulkner Award nomination and the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award of the American Academy and Institute of Arts for her first collection of short stories, At the Bottom of the River (1983). Kincaid was a New Yorker staff writer from 1976 until 1995 and has been publishing fiction and nonfiction since the mid-1970s. Her work has also appeared in Ingenue Magazine and The Village Voice. In 2004 she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.