My name is Vjange (pronounced like Angie with a V) Hazle. I was born in Hanover, Jamaica in the 1900's but grew up in Montego Bay. I attended Montego Bay High School and then Mico Teachers' College. I taught at Ardenne High, St. Catherine High and Montego Bay High before migrating to the United States. I also worked as a Telephone Operator for a while. My stories and poems have been published in The Gleaner, Focus, The Caribbean Writer 1990 and New Writing from the Caribbean. My article Chit-Chat appears in The West Indian Newspaper in Hartford, Connecticut. Currently, I live in Connecticut with my ten year old son Stuart and I work for an airline.

FAVORITE FOOD: Brown Stew Chicken and Fried Dumplings.

FAVORITE BEVERAGE(S): Milo wid nuff condense milk, carrot juice wid nutmeg, vanilla and nuff, nuff condense milk.

FAVORITE THINGS TO DO: Writing, dancing, reading, making people laugh an whole heap more but dem too much fi list.

FAVORITE QUOTE: There cannot be too many glorious women. (Me nuh memba a who say so but me believe it.)