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Brief Biography of The Jamaican author and poet: Soy Criada 
Jamaica has a number of writers, some living a broad while many still reside in Jamaica all making up the prestigious group of Caribbean writers .At the western part of the Island of Jamaica in the district of Sandy Bay lives the Jamaican poet and inspirational writer Soy Criada.
Buy a Kindle electronic reader and take all your favourite including Soy Criada books with you in this simple pocket size wireless device. Born to Panamanian mother and a Jamaican father the blend has produce an author with an intriguing mind and an interesting personality,quite a powerful yet unassuming lady.
She grew up for the first 5 years with her mother’s mother in the small rural district called Roslyn, a district now dead as it has lost its glory and fame of years gone by as the liveliest district in Hanover before the 1950’s.
Fame gained from the many young men who once visited from adjoining district especially Saturdays and Sundays because the district had the prettiest girls found no where else in Hanover. For this reason many cricket matches were hosted in Roslyn up to the early 50’s. This West Indian author Soy Criada was christened Juliet Christie but later added the name Murray When she married in her late twenties and moved to Sandy Bay.
She left Roslyn in 1956. At age five her grandmother who was ill and feeling unable to take care of her brought her to a cross road and gave her the choice to choose any she wished.
One would have taken her to the town of Lucea to live with her Father’s mother ,the other to Johnson Town to her mother’s uncle. She said she chose Johnson town; because the house was huge but her other grand mother lived in one room . The house
where she live before had five rooms.
The Jamaican author says making that choice was easy but later she realized that she had walked into a dreadful situation when she lived with this couple and their two grand daughters. She had a near almost Cinderella experience with the exception of the Prince charming to the rescue.
Her prince charming did materialize at age 19 with the missing” live happy ever after ending. By then she was a single mother with all the responsibilities of a single parent.She was determined that her child should not suffer as she did never knowing her father and not known her mother until age 28.
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Journey to Enlightenment -Revealed.ISBN 1-4120-3623-2
With the determination to make something worthwhile of her life she left that job when her evening classes paid off. She took up her first teaching appointment 1970. She continued to upgrade herself by working and studying. She has worked herself up to the position of Vice principal in a prominent Jamaican school and is the proud recipient of certificates, diplomas, degree and awards both in education and poetry. The latter she ventured out in 2002.
The Jamaican author now gives back to Jamaica and Jamaicans in the form of two of the greatest inspirational books ever written,which can be added to Jamaica's literature collection
You can look forward to getting more from this Jamaican author, may be a novel a cookbook or poetry who knows. Amozon book store Quietly nestling in a tree
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