← Olive SeniorEncyclopedia of Jamaican Heritageby Olive SeniorReference work documenting heritage, history, and cultural traditions of JamaicaFind on Amazon↗About the authorOlive SeniorJamaican poet and short story writer whose work celebrates the landscape, oral traditions, and complex colonial legacies of the Caribbean. Summer Lightning won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize.More by Olive SeniorSummer LightningShort stories capturing rural Jamaica through humor, myth, and intimate observation→Gardening in the TropicsPoetry collection exploring Caribbean landscape, colonialism, and female experience→Discerner of Hearts→Over the Roofs of the World→