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Yvonne Blackwood
Yvonne Blackwood was born in Manchester, Jamaica. She immigrated to Canada in 1976. She studied at the University of Technology, Jamaica and Ryerson University. She was a career banker for 35 years. She is an author, columnist, speaker and world traveller. She has published 3 books, her newest offering is "Into Africa: The Return". A novel is in the works. Yvonne previously wrote a bi-weekly column in the Toronto Star, a weekly column in, Pride Newsmagazine and a monthly column in The African Connection. She writes a quarterly article for InTouch, RBC's pensioners magazine.
E-mail: eblack2@ymail.com
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Publications
Will That be Cash or ‘Cuffs?. Toronto: White Knights Publications, 2005
Short story-Sweet Sixteen. Toronto: Wordscape, MTB Press, 1999
Short story—Old Friends. Toronto: In All Directions, Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 2000
Into Africa, A Personal Journey.. Toronto:Abbeyfield Publishers, 2000
Article—The First Day of the Rest of My Life.. In Touch Magazine, 2007
Into Africa: The Return. Trafford Publishing, 2009
Canadian Voices --excerpt in anthology. Bookland Press, 2009
Low-Maintenance Success (article). Our Canada Magazine, 2012
Awards
Canadian Author’s short story award winner, 2000
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