Over the years Maureen Marks-Mendonca has decorated her name in a number of fields in the professional world. Writing fiction was not one of them until recent years and it was never her first love.
She was keen with mathematics and loved to tell stories in the schoolyard but when it came to putting something down on paper, she preferred diagrams to words. Of course, once she entered the professional world it was very obvious that it would be impossible to do anything without writing.
As a diplomat, she wrote endless country and regional reports. As a government economist she was tasked with writing weeklies, monthlies and quarterlies for both Guyana and Jamaica, at different times. As a business economist she was required to produce frequent periodicals for international clients – and this was when she finally ‘rediscovered’ her calling. “There was so much
