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Authors
The 2018 NGC Bocas Lit Fest line-up of writers, speakers, and performers.
Adalber Salas Hernández
Poet | Essayist | Translator
Afua Hirsch
Writer | Broadcaster | Barrister
Alex Wheatle
Multi award-winning British novelist
Alexander Girvan
Environmental economist
Alison Donnell
Head of School of Literature, Drama, and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia
Amanda T. McIntyre
Writer | Cultural activist
André Alexis
2017 Windham-Campbell Prize Winner
Andre Bagoo
Trinidadian Poet
Angelique V. Nixon
Writer | Artist | Teacher | Scholar | Activist | Poet
Anthony Joseph
Poet | Novelist | Musician
Anu Lakhan
Writer | Editorial consultant
Barbara Jenkins
Award-winning author
Barbara Lalla
Professor Emerita of language and literature | Novelist
Bhoendradatt Tewarie
Former principal UWI Saint Augustine | Naipaul scholar
Black Sage
Calypsonian | Extempo lyricist
Breanne McIvor
People’s Republic of Writing (PROW) co-founder | The Caribbean Writer’s David Hough Literary Prize Winner
Bridget Brereton
Professor Emerita of history | Author
Carolyn Cooper
Professor Emeritia of literary and cultural studies | Broadcaster | Columnist
Celeste Mohammed
2018 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers Winner
Colin Robinson
Poet | Journalist | Human rights activist
Corine La Font
Publishing consultant
Damian Whiskey
Midnight Robber
Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné
Multi award-winning poet
Danielle Fraser
Library Conservator | Head of the Preservation and Conservation (PAC) Laboratory
Danielle Legros Georges
New England Poetry Club’s 2016 Sheila Margaret Motton Book Prize Winner | Boston’s second poet laureate
David Chariandy
2017 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize Winner
Debbie Jacob
Journalist | Librarian
Deneka Thomas
Spoken word poet
Derron Sandy
Spoken word poet
Eleanor Catton
2013 Man Booker Prize Winner
Elizabeth J. Jones
2018 CODE Burt Award for Young Adult Caribbean Literature Finalist
Erna Brodber
Activist | Scholar | 2017 Windham-Campbell Prize Winner
Evelyn O’Callaghan
Chair of the non-fiction judges for the 2018 OCM Bocas Prize
Funso Aiyejina
Deputy Festival Director, NGC Bocas Lit Fest | Nigerian prize-winning writer based in Trinidad
Imam Baksh
2018 CODE Burt Award for Young Adult Caribbean Literature Finalist
Ingrid Persaud
Commonwealth Short Story Prize Winner
Ira Mathur
Award-winning freelance journalist
Jacob Ross
Critically acclaimed author | 2018 OCM Bocas Prize Longlist finalist
Janet Smyth
Edinburgh International Book Festival Children & Education Programme Director
Jeannine Remy
Fullbright fellow | Lecturer
Jennifer Rahim
2018 OCM Bocas Prize Winner, Fiction
Jeremy Poynting
Founder and Managing Editor of the UK publishing house Peepal Tree Press
Joanne V. Gabbin
Professor of English at James Madison University
Johan Chuckaree
Musician
Judy Raymond
Editor in chief of the T&T Newsday | Chair of the non-fiction judges for the 2018 OCM Bocas Prize.
Katia D. Ulysse
Goucher College’s Spring 2017 Kratz Writer in Residence
Kaveh Akbar
Multi award-winning poet
Kei Miller
2017 OCM Bocas Prize Winner, Fiction
Keith Jardim
Author of Near Open Water
Kelly Baker Josephs
Editor of sx salon
Ken Ramchand
Professor Emeritus of West Indian literature | Literary critic
Kevin Jared Hosein
2017 CODE Burt Award for Young Adult Caribbean literature Winner
Kumar Mahabir
Assistant Professor UTT | Author
Lauren K. Alleyne
Assistant Director of the Furious Flower Poetry Center
Lisa Allen-Agostini
2017 CODE Burt Award for Young Adult Literature Winner
Loretta Collins
Multi award-winning author
Lorraine Nero
Librarian
M. James Cooper
Author of Tomorrow, Please God: The Seven Narratives
Maria Nunes
Photographer | Producer
Mariel Brown
Award-winning documentary filmmaker | Director of SAVANT Ltd
Marina Salandy-Brown
Founder and Director of the NGC Bocas Lit Fest
Mark Loquan
Honorary Founding Director of the Music Literacy Trust
Mervyn Taylor
Poet | Visual artist
Michael Kelleher
Director of the Windham-Campbell Literature Prizes at Yale
Monique Roffey
2013 OCM Bocas Prize Winner
Muli Amaye
Novelist | Short story writer | Poet
Myron B
2018 Extempo Champion
Nestor Sullivan
Chairman Eastern Region and VP & Public Relations Officer of the Steelband Association (Pan Trinbago) | Operations Manager of T&T National Steel Orchestra
Nicholas Laughlin
Programme director of the NGC Bocas Lit Fest
Philip Nanton
Author of Frontiers of the Caribbean
Raymond Antrobus
Award winning British-Jamaican poet
Rhoda Bharath
Caribbean writer | Political and cultural blogger
Richard Georges
Co-editor of Moko
Romesh Gunesekera
Sri Lanka-born, British writer | Short-listed for the Booker Prize and the Guardian Fiction Prize
Rudolph Ottley
Assistant Professor at the Academy of the Arts
Rudylynn De Four Roberts
Past President and Fellow of the Trinidad and Tobago Institute of Architects
Savitri (Savi) Naipaul Akal
Author of The Naipauls of Nepaul Street
Shakirah Bourne
2018 Burt Award Finalist
Shara Mccallum
2018 OCM Bocas Prize Winner, Poetry
Sharifa Ali-Abdullah
Representative of the United Nations Development Programme for T&T
Sharon Millar
Award-winning author
Shivanee Ramlochan
Trinidadian poet | Arts reporter | Literary reviewer
Sonia Farmer
Bahamian writer | Founder of Poinciana Paper Press
Stephen Stuempfle
Executive Director of the Society for Ethnomusicology
Sterling Henderson
Journalist
Sunity Maharaj
Managing Director of the Lloyd Best Institute of the West Indies | Senior Career Journalist
Sushiela Nasta
Founding Editor of Wasafiri: Magazine of International Contemporary Writing
Tracey Baptiste
Young adult and children's author
Tracy Assing
Writer | Editor | Filmmaker
Vahni Capildeo
Winner of the 2016 Forward Prize | Chair of the poetry judges for the 2018 OCM Bocas Prize.
Vicki-Ann Assevero
International lawyer | Social entrepreneur
Viviana Prado-Núñez
2017 CODE Burt Award for Caribbean Young Adult Literature Winner