Summer Edward

Summer Edward
Born	10 March 1986 San Fernando, Trinidad
Nationality	Trinidadian and American
Education	Temple University, University of Pennsylvannia
Occupation	Writer, children's editor

Summer Edward (born 1986) is a Trinidadian-born writer, children's editor, educator, literary activist and children's literature specialist based in the USA. In 2010, at the age of 24, she founded Anansesem ezine, the first children’s literature publication in the English-speaking Caribbean and has since served as its Editor-in-Chief. She is one of the Caribbean's youngest literary editors. Anansesem has published some of the most distinctive and distinguished voices in Caribbean literature for young people including Floella Benjamin, Gerald Hausman, Ibi Zoboi, Itah Sadu, Lynn Joseph, Margarita Engle, Nadia L. Hohn, Olive Senior and Vashanti Rahaman.

Edward currently teaches at the University of the West Indies.

Edward was born in San Fernando, Trinidad and grew up in Valsayn, Trinidad. She is the second child of her mother Margaret, a university assistant registrar, and father Thomas Edward, an engineer. When she was five years old, her father immigrated to Philadelphia, earning his living as a city streets department supervisor. From the age of ten, Edward became a third culture kid, travelling yearly with her older sister to Philadelphia where she spent summers with her father. She attended the St. Joseph's Convent girls' high school in St. Joseph, Trinidad. At the age of eighteen, Edward moved to Philadelphia to live with her father and attend university. She earned a bachelor of arts degree in psychology at Temple University where she organized the College of Liberal Arts' World Voices Poetry Festival and received the Jane D. Mackler Baccalaureate Award for academic achievement.

In 2011, she earned a Master of Education degree in reading, writing, literacy from the University of Pennsylvania. During that time, she was graduate assistant to Dr. Lawrence Sipe, then North American editor-in-chief of the journal Children’s Literature in Education, and a leading scholar of children's literature. It was while taking Sipe's courses that she became interested in children's publishing as a career path. She remained a straight-A student throughout her university career and is a lifelong Roothbert Fellow and a lifelong Phi Beta Kappa member.

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