Charmaine Wilkerson

Charmaine Wilkerson is a Jamaican-American or Caribbean-American writer, originally from New York, who has lived in Jamaica, Los Angeles, and for over two decades in Rome, Italy.[1][3] A graduate of Barnard College with a B.A. in linguistics and Stanford University, she is a former journalist whose award-winning short stories have appeared in magazines and anthologies, and she is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels Black Cake (2022) and Good Dirt.[1][2][3] Black Cake was a Read With Jenna book club pick, a Book of the Month selection, and adapted into a Hulu series.[1][2]