She is the co-author of textbooks VAMOS AMIGOS and FRENCH IN PRACTICE. She is a well known actress of solo performances which she writes, directs and performs. Her first collection of poems is titled SEND ME NO FLOWERS.

Dr. Jean Small was born in Guyana in 1935 and went to the Mona Campus of the University of the West Indies, Jamaica in 1954 to study Foreign Languages. She has worked as a teacher of French language and literature in Guyana. Nigeria, Australia, Guadeloupe. Martinique and Jamaica.