Beverley-Ann Scott is a medical doctor and author of two West Indian novels: The Stolen Cascadura, and Is America She Gone?

 

She began working in Republic Bank Ltd at the age of eighteen as a bank teller and later obtained a BSc in Information Systems and Management from the University of London, which she pursued at the School of Accounting and Management in St. Augustine. She continued her career in the business world and later went on to work for companies such as Pi Caribbean Ltd, Oscar Francois Limited and Scotiabank Trinidad. In 2000, while she was still working in the private sector, she began writing on a part-time basis for the Catholic News a weekly Catholic newspaper based in Trinidad.

 

After ten years in the business and banking sector, she decided to pursue a career in medicine. She obtained her Doctor of Medicine degree from Our Lady of Fatima University, Manila, Philippines. She returned to Trinidad in 2010 and worked at both Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex and Port-of-Spain General Hospital from 2010 to 2014.  In 2007 she launched her first novel The Stolen Cascadura. At that time, she was one of the youngest authors of a completed work of West Indian fiction. In 2012, The Stolen Cascadura was selected by the National Library and Information System Authority (NALIS), for the 7th Annual One Book One Community Project. In 2013 she published her second novel, Is America She Gone? In July 2014 she migrated to the United States where she currently works in health care in the area of Quality Management.