Robert Edison Sandiford is a Canadian writer of Barbadian descent whose articles and stories have appeared in The Globe and Mail, The Antigonish Review, Calabash, The Comics Journal, and Erotic Stories in the U.K., among other publications.

The author of Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall: Stories; two graphic story collections, Attractive Forces and Stray Moonbeams; and the memoir Sand for Snow: A Caribbean-Canadian Chronicle, he currently divides his time between Canada and Barbados. From 1997 to 2001, he was the associate literary editor then arts and entertainment editor of the Nation newspaper in Barbados.

With his work, Sandiford seeks “to justify the ways of peoples to each other,” his main themes being the conflicting passions of erotic love and the resilience of familial love. He is the recipient of The Lionel Shapiro Award, The Harold Hoyte Award and Barbados’ Governor General’s Award of Excellence in Literary Arts.

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY:

Sand for Snow: A Caribbean-Canadian Chronicle (DC Books, Montreal, 2003)
Stray Moonbeams, illustrated by Justin Norman with Brandon Graham (NBM Publishing, New York, 2002).
Attractive Forces, illustrated by Justin Norman with Brandon Graham (NBM Publishing, New York, 1997).
Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall: Stories, illustrated by the author and C. Cathcart Sandiford (Empyreal Press/The Independent Press, 1995).