E.M. Henry started writing in high school where he won a national writing competition sponsored by both the Jamaican and Chinese governments. Beginning in college, he wrote weekly opinion columns for the Jamaica Gleaner, the oldest newspaper company in the Caribbean, and was a commentator on Radio Jamaica, the largest radio company in Jamaica. Since 2006, he has worked as the communications director for the Baptist World Alliance in the Washington, DC, suburb of Falls Church in Northern Virginia. He has edited three nonfiction books, including Ministry Perspectives from the Caribbean, a Festschrift honoring noted Caribbean church historian, Horace O. Russell. An ordained clergyman and trained journalist, he holds degrees and diplomas from Temple University in Philadelphia; and the University of the West Indies and the United Theological College in Jamaica.