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Education: Goldsmiths' College, London, B. Wilson fellowship to Cambridge University , Also wrote an episode each for the series South of the Border , , and Chalkface , As the daughter of Jamaican parents, Pinnock's writing is influenced by the role Caribbean heritage plays in the lives of England's black communities.

Winsome pinnock biography images: Leave Taking (NHB Modern Plays) ;

A Hero's Welcome , set in Jamaica, follows the story of three young women coming of age in This play, commissioned by the Clean Break Theatre Company, tells of three women—Allie, a British runaway, and Jamaican sisters Lou and Lyla, who work as couriers for the international drug trade. While focusing on the lives of these women, the play carries an overlying impression of the desperation people feel when born to a life of poverty.

Reviews of Mules were favorable, as critics illuminated Pinnock's ability to bring a very real problem to life on stage. Variety contributor Charles Isherwood wrote that "'Mules' has substance to spare. It's a vividly drawn picture of women exploiting themselves—and one another—in the international drug trade. In Pinnock wrote her next widely received play, Water , which was produced by Tricycle Theatre in London as part of a double bill with Alice Childress 's play Wine in the Wilderness.

Pinnock's play tells of a successful young painter who uses her life experiences in her art.