Author Directory
A complete list of authors, writers and speakers who have participated in our festival to date.- Aaron Kamugisha
- Aarti Gosine
- Abigail Parry
- Adalber Salas Hernández
- Adam Andrews
- Afua Hirsch
- Agyei Archer
- Aisha Acres
- Akilah Jaramogi
- Alake Pilgrim
- Alette Liz Williams
- Alex Wheatle
- Alexander Girvan
- Alexandra Stewart
- Alexia Arthurs
- Alianna Grant
- Alison Donnell
- Alissa Trotz
- Aliyyah Eniath
- Alscess Lewis-Brown
- Alvin Daniell
- Amanda Alcántara
- Amanda Choo Quan
- Amanda T. McIntyre
- Amílcar Sanatan
- Anderson Patrick
- Andil Gosine
- André Alexis
- Andre Bagoo
- Andrew Fitt
- Andy Johnson
- Andy Knight
- Angelique V. Nixon
- Angelo Bissessarsingh
- Ann-Margaret Lim
- Anna Levi
- Annalee Davis
- Anthony Joseph
- Anthony Wall
- Anton Nimblett
- Anu Lakhan
- Aonghas MacNeacail
- Ararimeh Aiyejina
- Ariana Herbert
- Arielle John
- Aryana Mohammed
- Asha Javeed
- Attillah Springer
- Auntie Thea
- Austin Clarke
- Avery Herbert
- Avion Crooks
- Ayanna Gillian Lloyd
- Barbara Jenkins
- Barbara Lalla
- Baroness Susan Greenfield
- Barry Goldblatt
- Basdeo Panday
- Basil Reid
- Baz Dreisinger
- Bethany Milne
- Betty Peter
- Bhaskar Sunkara
- Bhoendradatt Tewarie
- Black Sage
- Brandon O’Brien
- Breanne McIvor
- Brenda Hughes
- Brendon O’Brien
- Brian Benoit
- Brian Boyce
- Brian London
- Bridget Brereton
- Brinsley Samaroo
- Britta Rajkumar
- Canisia Lubrin
- Carol Mitchell
- Carol Ottley-Mitchell
- Carolina Arrieta Castillo
- Caroline Mackenzie
- Carolyn Cooper
- Carolyn S. Seereeram-Harnanan
- Caryl Phillips
- Celeste Mohammed
- Celia A. Sorhaindo
- Chadd Cumberbatch
- Che Lovelace
- Che Rodriguez
- Chike Pilgrim
- Christine Norton
- Claire Adam
- Claire Armitstead
- Clare Alexander
- Claudia de Verteuil
- CLR James
- Colette Jones-Chin
- Colin Bootman
- Colin Robinson
- Colleen Selvon-Rampersad
- Conrad Parris
- Corine La Font
- Curdella Forbes
- D.J. Simmons
- Damian Whiskey
- Danez Smith
- Daniel Hahn
- Daniel José Older
- Daniel O’Brien
- Daniela Tramacere
- Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné
- Danielle Delon
- Danielle Fraser
- Danielle Gianetti
- Danielle Legros Georges
- Danielle Y.C. McClean
- Dara E Healy
- Dara Wilkinson-Bobb
- Darin Gibson
- Darlington Henry
- Daryll Goodchild
- David Abdulah
- David Chariandy
- David Codling
- David Dabydeen
- David Furlonge
- David McDermott Hughes
- Debbie Goodman
- Debbie Jacob
- Deborah Jean-Baptiste-Samuel
- Deneka Thomas
- Derek Walcott, OBE
- Derrick Sharbodie
- Derron Sandy
- Derry Sandy
- Deryck Murray
- Désha A. Osborne
- Desiree Seebaran
- DH Gibbs
- Diana Evans
- Diana McCaulay
- Dionne Brand
- Dragonzilla
- Dwight Thompson
- Earl Lovelace
- Edward Baugh
- Edwidge Danticat
- Eintou Pearl Springer
- Eleanor Catton
- Eliot Weinberger
- Elisha Efua Bartels
- Elizabeth J. Jones
- Elizabeth Solomon
- Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw
- Elspeth Duncan
- Emma D’Costa
- Eric Maitrejean
- Erna Brodber
- Esbeth Callender-Braithwaite
- Esther Phillips
- Evelyn O’Callaghan
- Everard McBain
- Fazeer Mohammed
- Felicia Chang
- Felix Edinborough
- Florenz Webbe Maxwell
- Francis Lovell
- Frank McField
- Frank Wynne
- Franka Philip
- Fred D’Aguiar
- Freetown Collective
- Funso Aiyejina
- Gabriela Mistral
- Gabrielle Hosein
- Gabrielle Mohamed
- Garfield Ellis
- Gary Hector
- Gary Younge
- Geeta Ramsingh
- Gemma Robinson
- Geoffrey MacLean
- Geoffrey Philp
- Gerard Besson
- Gerda Stevenson
- Gilberte O’Sullivan
- Gillian Lucky
- Gillian Moor
- Gillian Royes
- Gillian Slovo
- Glenda-Rose Nassoma Layne
- Gloriann Sacha Antonetty Lebrón
- Godfrey P. Smith
- Gordon Rohlehr
- Grace Achoy
- Grace Aneiza Ali
- Greer Jones-Woodham
- Gregory Sloane-Seale
- Gregory Thompson
- Gustavo Barrera Calderón
- H[ubert] Nigel Thomas
- Hadassah K. Williams
- Hannah Lowe
- Hazel McShine
- Heather Cateau
- Helen Batson
- Hon. Mr. Justice Adrian Saunders
- Ian F. Ali
- Ian Randle
- Ibrahim Ahmad
- Idrees Saleem
- Iezora Edwards
- Imam Baksh
- Ingrid Persaud
- Ira Mathur
- Ishion Hutchinson
- Isoke Efia Edwards
- Ivette Romero
- Jacob Ross
- Jacqueline Bishop
- Jacqueline Laguardia
- Jade Drakes
- Jaime Lee Loy
- James Aboud
- James Christopher Aboud
- Jane Bryce
- Janet Smyth
- Janet Steel
- Janilla Carrington
- Janine Mendes-Franco
- Jannine T. Horsford
- Javier Carbajosa
- Jean-Claude Cournand
- Jeanelle Frontin
- Jeanne Mason
- Jeannine Remy
- Jennifer Rahim
- Jennifer Thomas-Straker
- Jenny Green
- Jeremy Poynting
- Jerome Teelucksingh
- Jeunanne Alkins
- Jillian Carreira
- Jo-Anne Ferreira
- Joan Osborne
- Joanne V. Gabbin
- Jocelyne Guilbault
- Johan Chuckaree
- John O. Stewart
- John Robert Lee
- Johnny Temple
- Jorge Franco Ramos
- Jorge Thielen-Armand
- José Serulle
- Joshua Lue Chee Kong
- Judith Theodore
- Judy Raymond
- Julian Rogers
- Julie Morton
- June Aming
- June Soomer
- Kahaya Sooklalsingh
- Kamau Brathwaite
- Kamila Shamsie
- Karen Lord
- Karen McCarthy Woolf
- Katherine Agyemaa Agard
- Katia D. Ulysse
- Kaveh Akbar
- Kei Miller
- Keir Roopnarine
- Keith Jardim
- Keith Rowley
- Kelly Baker Josephs
- Ken Ramchand
- Kendel Hippolyte
- Kenneth ‘Ken’ Gordon
- Kenny Philips
- Kenyon Farrow
- Keron Niles
- Kess the Illusionist
- Kevin Adonis Browne
- Kevin Jared Hosein
- Kim Robinson-Walcott
- Kizzy Ruiz
- Krystal A. Sital
- Kumar Mahabir
- Kurt Allen
- Kwame Ryan
- Kwynn Johnson
- Kyle “Skeeto” Amos
- Kyle Hernandez
- Kyle Noel
- L. A. Wanliss
- Lalonde Ochoa
- Lance Dowrich
- Lasana M. Sekou
- Lauren Francis-Sharma
- Lauren K. Alleyne
- Laurence Breiner
- Lawrence Scott
- Legna Rodríguez Iglesias
- Lesley-Ann Brown
- Let’s Read TT
- Lisa Allen-Agostini
- Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert
- Loretta Collins Klobah
- Lorna Goodison
- Lorraine Nero
- Lou Lyons
- Louis Lee Sing
- Lucy Hannah
- Luke Daniels
- Luke Neima
- Lylah Persad
- Lynette Seebaran-Suite
- Lynn Joseph
- M. James Cooper
- Majeed Karim
- Malaika Adero
- Malka Older
- Mandisa Granderson
- Mandisa Pantin
- Marcia Douglas
- Marcus Millette
- Margaret Busby
- Maria Grau Perejoan
- Maria Nunes
- Mariano Brown
- Mariel Brown
- Marina Salandy-Brown
- Marina Warner
- Marjorie Thorpe
- Mark Loquan
- Mark Lyndersay
- Mark Raymond
- Mark Wilson
- Marla Dukharan
- Marlene Attzs
- Marlon James
- Marsha Gomes-McKie
- Marsha Riley
- Martin Daly
- Marva Newton
- Mary Cuffy
- Melanie Archer
- Melissa Doughty
- Melissa Matthews
- Mere Taito
- Merissa Aguilleira
- Merle Hodge
- Mervyn Taylor
- Michael Anthony
- Michael Cherrie
- Michael Cozier
- Michael Dash
- Michael Kelleher
- Michael Logie
- Michael Mooleedhar
- Michelene Adams
- Miguel Browne
- Miscellaneous Authors
- Monique Roffey
- Motilal Boodoosingh
- Muhammad Muwakil
- Muli Amaye
- Myron B
- Nadella Oya
- Nailah Folami Imoja
- Nalo Hopkinson
- Nancy Morejón
- Naomi Jackson
- Natacha Jones
- Natalie Edgecombe
- Nathalie Taghaboni
- Nazma Muller
- Néhémy Pierre Dahomey
- Nell Leyshon
- Nestor Sullivan
- Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
- Nicholas Galt
- Nicholas Laughlin
- Nick Makoha
- Nickolai Salcedo
- Nicola Ramsaran
- Nicole Dennis-Benn
- Nicole Roberts
- Nicole Sealey
- Nigel Campbell
- Nigel Scott
- Nikki Crosby
- Nnamdi Hodge
- Olive Senior
- Omardath Maharaj
- Omare Asson
- Oprah Francis
- Otávio Maia Chelotti
- P.J. Patterson
- Pablo Neruda
- Patience Agbabi
- Patricia Mohammed
- Patti-Anne Ali
- Paul Keens-Douglas
- Paula Gopee-Scoon
- Paula Williams Madison
- Pauline Melville
- Penelope Spencer
- Perspective the Entertainer
- Peter Kimani
- Peter Straus
- Philip Nanton
- Polly Pattullo
- Portia Subran
- Prithiviraj Bahadursingh
- R.S.A. Garcia
- Rabindranath Maharaj
- Rajiv Mohabir
- Ramabai Espinet
- Ramesh Deosaran
- Rashad Hosein
- Raymond Antrobus
- Raymond Ramcharitar
- Reanna Edwards Paul
- Rebekah Daniel
- Regina Dumas
- Reginald Dwayne Betts
- Rhoda Bharath
- Rhoma Spencer
- Ria Julien
- Ricardo Bharath Hernandez
- Richard Fung
- Richard Georges
- Rikki Jai
- Robert Edison Sandiford
- Roderick “Chuck” Gordon
- Romesh Gunesekera
- Rosamond King
- Rowan Ricardo Phillips
- Roy Cape
- Rubadiri Victor
- Rudolph Ottley
- Rudylynn De Four Roberts
- Ruel Johnson
- Ruth Osman
- Sabrina Ramnanan
- Safiya Sinclair
- Samiya Bashir
- Sarah Beckett
- Satnarine Balkaransingh
- Savitri (Savi) Naipaul Akal
- Schuyler Esprit
- Scott Ting-A-Kee
- Sean Samad
- Selwyn R. Cudjoe
- Senator the Hon. Raziah Ahmed
- Seth Sylvester
- Shakirah Bourne
- Shane Book
- Shani Mootoo
- Shara Mccallum
- Sharda Patasar
- Sharifa Ali-Abdullah
- Sharlan Bailey
- Sharon Jorcil-James
- Sharon Millar
- Sheetal Daswani
- Shineque Saunders
- Shivanee Ramlochan
- Silvio Torres-Saillant
- Sofia Chote
- Sonia Farmer
- Stella Chong Sing
- Stephen Brown
- Stephen Narain
- Stephen Stuempfle
- Sterling Henderson
- Sterling Kent aka Gamma Ghost
- Sufia Giza Amenwahsu
- Summer Edward
- Sunity Maharaj
- Sushiela Nasta
- Sylvan Joseph
- Tamara Groeneveldt
- Tamara Lewis
- Tamika Gibson
- Tessa McWatt
- Thackwray “Dax” Driver
- Thelma Perkins
- Theresa Awai
- Tiphanie Yanique
- Tishani Doshi
- Tobias S. Buckell
- Tony Hall
- Tracey Baptiste
- Tracy Assing
- Treldon Layne
- Tristan Walker
- Ty N. Batson
- Vahni Capildeo
- Valerie Taylor
- Vanda Radzik
- Vanessa Croft-Thompson
- Vanessa Salazar
- Vashti Bowlah
- Vaughn T. Stanford
- Verena Boodoosingh
- Verna Allette Wilkins
- Vicki-Ann Assevero
- Vivek Narayanan
- Viviana Prado-Núñez
- Vladimir Lucien
- Wade Mark
- Warren Le Platte
- Wendell Manwarren
- Wesley Gibbings
- Willi Chen
- Winston “Gypsy” Peters
- Winston Trotman
- Yuri Herrera
- Yvonne Weekes
- Zahra Gordon
- Zakiya ‘Griot’ Gill
- Zalika Reid-Benta
