Rachel Manley is a Jamaican writer in verse and prose, born in Cornwall, raised in Jamaica and currently residing in Canada. She is a daughter of former Jamaican Prime Minister Michael Manley. She edited Edna Manley's diaries which were published in 1989. She won the Governor General's Award for English language non-fiction in 1997 for her memoir Drumblair: memories of a Jamaican childhood. She has since published more memoirs and some volumes of verse. Her other biographical works include Horses in her Hair, In my Father's Shade, and Slipstream.