Vahni Capildeo

Vahni Capildeo’s books include No Traveller Returns (2003), Person Animal Figure (2005), Undraining Sea (2009, shortlisted for the Guyana Prize for Literature Caribbean Award), Dark & Unaccustomed Words (2012, longlisted for the OCM Bocas Prize), Utter (2013), Simple Complex Shapes (2015), Measures of Expatriation (2016 winner of the Forward Best Collection Prize), and Venus as a Bear (2018). She is chair of the poetry judges for the 2018 OCM Bocas Prize.