148:. She married a fellow student, and during the 1960s lived in Wales, returning to Trinidad in the early 1970s. She has described her successful writing career as "accidental": after she retired as a secondary school geography teacher, she joined a writers group in 2007 at the urging of a friend, and subsequently was accepted on the workshop for regional writers hosted by the Cropper Foundation. Jenkins went on to take the Master's of Fine Arts (MFA) creative writing programme at the
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