Gordon Carrega, born in British Guiana (now Guyana) in 1944, at the age of thirteen immigrated with his family to Brooklyn, New York, where he attended high school, and then majored in English at New York State University, New Paltz. He lived in California for many years, mainly in the Russian River area, on Sonoma Mountain, and in Berkeley, finishing his MA in Literature at California State University, Sonoma, in 1976. Having made his home in Berlin, Germany, since 1988, he works as a freelance English instructor and continues to publish in various magazines, such as Paris Review, Five Fingers Review, Ironwood, Berkeley Review, Bombay Gin.