DWIGHT THOMPSON is the award-winning author of the novel Death Register and has published short stories in PREE and the Caribbean Writer. He won the Charlotte and Isidor Paiewonsky Prize, was shortlisted for the 2012 Small Axe Literary Competition, and was longlisted for the 2021 and 2022 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Born and raised in Jamaica, he currently works at an international school in Hiroshima, Japan. My Own Dear People (Akashic Books) is his second novel.