Nana Farika was trained as a writer by the Philip Sherlock Creative Arts Centre at the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, Jamaica, the London School of Journalism in England, the British Broadcasting Corporation, London, England, the Institute de Allende, University of Guanajuato, Mexico, the Circle in the Square Theater School, New York and the Gleaner Company, Kingston, Jamaica. Her short fiction, poetry, articles, radio and television scripts are published in the Caribbean, the United States, England and many European countries.  Her children’s stories were published by Kingston Publishers and McGraw Hill publishers and were used for over a decade as readers in the Jamaica elementary school system.