Rahaman, Vashanti

Vashanti attended school in Dominica, West Indies, and received her B.S. at Mt. Allison University in Canada. She has been a secondary teacher, worked for the Government of Trinidad and Tobago, and been a graduate research assistant at the University of West Indies. She has had articles published in Highlights, Pockets, and Cricket. Vashanti likes writing, public school volunteering, Sunday school teachering, sewing, mending, cooking, and cleaning.Who am I? "Our sons are growing up far from the British Caribbean that nurtured my husband and me. My writing, I have found, can be a vehicle for bringing those faraway voices near. I hope that, as I grow more skillful, voices of distant grandparents, uncles, aunts, and cousins will come through more clearly, teaching old melodies to my sons and adding new harmonies to the songs of other children."