CHER CORBIN – WRITER & ARTIST
This Barbadian daughter is a mother of two, a forensic scientist and is a
silver and bronze award winner in Photography (2009) at the National
Independence Festival of Creative Arts (NIFCA).
An Honours Graduate in Chemistry from UWI Cave Hill Campus, in 1989
Cher gained the position of being the first Forensic Scientist in Barbados
having achieved her Masters in Forensic Science from Kings College,
University of London. She has since had a long and rewarding career in
the field and is presently the Director of the Forensic Sciences Centre,
Office of the Attorney General.
Cher prides herself in being both left and right brained and demonstrates
her creativity as an artist in many different areas. In 2011 she added to her
awards by receiving two silver medals in the Literary Arts at NIFCA for her
prose pieces "INTERVENTION" and "THE PINK SLIP". The latter also
won her the Incentive Award for the Most Promising Adult Prose Piece.
She was awarded a bronze in 2012 with “THE ANNUAL CHRISTMAS
CUSS-OUT” and in the Fine Arts category another bronze for her
Watercolour “BRIDGE AT THE HOLE”. In 2013 her Acrylic painting
“GEM OF SPEIGHTSTOWN” was awarded a Bronze award.
Cher’s works have been published in St. Somewhere Online Literary
Journal, Blackberry:The Magazine, and in four anthologies – Bamboo
Press –‘She Sex’, The National Cultural Foundation’s – ‘Winning
Words’, “She Speaks – Woman’s Journal” and ‘Senseisha’ – An
Anthology on the sensuality of the Barbadian Woman. She is presently
working on two novellas, “SILVERED MIRRORS” and “THE PINK
SLIP”.
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