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Javaughn Forde

Javaughn Forde is a contemporary multidisciplinary artist based in Trinidad and Tobago. His work is centred around magical realism and the human experience. Javaughn has published bodies of poetry, hosted and participated in multiple visual art galleries as well as put out his own, at home, recorded musical mixtape by the title “Thoughts of The […]

Omari Joseph

Omari Joseph is a recent graduate of The UWI St Augustine. He was born in Saint Lucia, raised in Guyana, and studied in Trinidad and Tobago. The International Tourism Management graduate epitomises the Caribbean citizen. His essays have been published by CAF Development of Latin America and the ILO. In his writing, he often covers the struggles of Caribbean youth and the future of the Caribbean region.

Jayron Remy

DJ, Television Show Host, Event Producer, Music Producer and Sound Engineer. These are the skills that Jayron “Rawkus” Remy has gathered over his 20 years in the entertainment industry. Popularly known for hosting Vintage Unplugged, he currently hosts on The Now Morning show on TTT and has a radio show on Talk City 91.1fm called […]

Farouk Jr.

Farouk Jr. is an actor, born in San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago. He is currently pursuing singing, songwriting, and acting wherever opportunities arise. He graduated with honors, obtaining a B.Sc. in Music Business from the Trevecca Nazarene University in Nashville, TN USA. He has most recently taken part in the stage production Believe: Bring Us […]

Reea Rodney

Reea Rodney is a resident of Brooklyn, New York, but is originally from Indian Walk, Moruga in Trinidad. She has acquired a BSc. in Healthcare Management, in addition to an Associate’s in Occupational Studies with a major in Medical Assisting and several certifications. As a serial entrepreneur, Reea holds the titles of Self-Publishing Consultant and […]

Jay T. John

Jay T. John is a non-binary Trinidadian poet who uses art to contextualize and highlight the nuanced experience of otherness. Their poetry has appeared in the 2018 anthology Unwritten: Caribbean Poems after the First World War and they are a finalist for the 2021 Johnson and Amoy Achong Caribbean Writers Prize.

Akhim Alexis

Akhim Alexis is a writer born and raised in Trinidad where he is currently pursuing an MA in Literatures in English and teaches part-time as an Assistant Lecturer in the Writing Centre at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine. His poetry and creative non-fiction has appeared in The McNeese Review, Moko Magazine, Juked, […]

Ardene Sirjoo

With over 13 years’ broadcast experience, Ardene is a popular voice on news and current affairs station i95.5FM. She is also co-founder and a director of Trini Good Media, a digital media company specialising in audio production. Ardene Sirjoo is a Trinidadian journalist as well as the Communications Lead at The Cropper Foundation.

Stephanie Ramlogan

Stephanie Ramlogan is a Caribbean writer from Trinidad and Tobago. Her published work ranges from blogs to critical essays to fictional short stories. After being short-listed for the BCLF Caribbean Nunez Writer’s Prize in 2019 and winning it in 2020, Stephanie is now dedicated to uplifting Caribbean Stories through both fiction and non, and dissecting […]

Nadja Nabbie

Nadja Adora Nabbie is a writer who champions the empowerment of women through narratives that depict healing from trauma, connection to the body and self-love. A scholarship winner, Nabbie secured a Masters in Creative and Critical Writing at the University of Sussex before returning to Trinidad to publish her first title, My Own SBA Toolkit […]

Daria-Ann Martineau

Daria-Ann Martineau was born and raised in Trinidad and Tobago. She holds an MFA in Poetry from New York University and is an alumna of several writing conferences, including Bread Loaf and the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley. In 2017, Anomaly nominated her poem “When I have left my body” for a Pushcart Prize. […]

Desiree C. Bailey

Desiree C. Bailey is the author of What Noise Against the Cane (Yale University Press, 2021), winner of the 2020 Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize. She is also the author of the fiction chapbook In Dirt or Saltwater (O’clock Press, 2016) and has short stories and poems published in Best American Poetry, Best New […]

Ambika Jadoonanan

Ambika Jadoonanan is an Indo-Trinidadian, final year Engineering student with a passion for reading. Her aim is to read as many diverse books as possible containing stimulating topics that are relevant and critical in today’s society. The Rebel Women Lit’s Caribbean Readers’ Awards Content Creator winner, Ambika is commonly known as ambi_reads within the bookstagram […]

Alana-Marie Gopaul

Alana-Marie Gopaul is currently the Marketing and Media Manager at Bocas Lit Fest. Her professional experiences span the fields of Psychology, Human Resource Management and Corporate Communications, but her most fulfilling roles have been with NGOs including TEDxPortofSpain, the Green Screen Environmental Film Festival, and as a volunteer tutor with ALTA, before finding a home […]

Brandon Mc Ivor

Brandon Mc Ivor is a Trinidadian writer living in Ehime, Japan. His work has been published by adda, the Caribbean Writer, and Akashic Books among other journals. He was twice shortlisted for the Small Axe Literary Prize, and in 2020 was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize. He is currently working on his first […]

Joan Dayal

Joan Dayal, proprietor of Paper Based, one of the Caribbean’s leading independent bookshops, is the recipient of the 2017 Bocas Henry Swanzy Award for Distinguished Service to Caribbean Letters. Since its inception, Paper Based has been home not only to the sale of titles in Caribbean fiction, non-fiction, and poetry: through a regular reading series, […]

Sheena Kamal

Sheena Kamal holds an HBA in Political Science from the University of Toronto, and was awarded a TD Canada Trust scholarship for community leadership and activism around the issue of homelessness. She was born in Trinidad and Tobago, and migrated to Canada as a child. Her bestselling debut The Lost Ones won her a Kobo Emerging Writer Prize, […]

Kirk Budhooram

Kirk Budhooram was awarded his MFA in Creative Writing from the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine in 2014. He was awarded the David Hough Literary Award in 2016 for a short story published in The Caribbean Writer. In 2018, he was shortlisted in the sx salon Literary Competition. In September 2019, his short […]

Pauliana “Pauls” Padmore

Pauliana “The Pauls” Padmore is a talented young musician and songwriter. More than an entertainer, she uses music to participate in community outreach with organizations such as The 2 Cents Movement, The Empress Foundation and Quays: the Vibesquad.

Eric Lewis

Eric Lewis has been researching the pre and post-colonial history of Moruga and the activities of the First Peoples in that area of South Trinidad. Lewis founded the St Vincent Ferrer Society (SVFS) in 2005, which has assisted in the revitalising of the St Peter’s celebration in collaboration with the Grand Chemin Fishing Association and […]

Hazel Manning

Hazel Manning is a former Cabinet Minister in the Government of Trinidad and Tobago. Her father, the late educator, Mr. Albert Boysie Huggins conducted considerable research into the “Companies” of black American soldiers who settled in Trinidad in 1812. Mrs. Manning has done immense work in furthering the understanding and appreciation of Merikin history. She […]

Jan Westmaas

Jan Westmaas, linguist, teacher and traveller extraordinaire, chronicles his experiences of 40 years of travelling the world from 1972 – 2013, in his book Out of the Box: Tales of Travel.

Kevin Baldeosingh

Kevin Baldeosingh is a Trinidadian newspaper columnist, author and co-founder and chairman of the Trinidad and Tobago Humanist Association. Aside from his journalistic work he has published numerous short stories, three novels, and a play, The Comedian, which was one of the four winners of the National Drama Association’s playwriting contest. In 2000 and 2001 […]

Roger Robinson

Roger Robinson is a writer and performer who lives between London and Trinidad. His book A Portable Paradise (Peepal Tree Press) won the prestigious T. S. Eliot Prize 2019, and his first collection, The Butterfly Hotel, was shortlisted for The OCM Bocas Prize for Poetry. Roger is the lead vocalist for King Midas Sound, whose […]

Carolyn Ali

For over four decades, Carolyn Ali has enjoyed a successful career, teaching and writing in Trinidad and Tobago. From the 1980s to the 90s, her children’s stories regularly appeared in the Junior Express. In 2010, her book Stories and Recipes from The Egg Lady, published by Hansib, was launched at the University of the West […]

Ryan Durgasingh

Ryan Durgasingh is an editor and interviewer for The Spaces Between Words podcast.

Amanda Smyth

Amanda Smyth is Irish-Trinidadian and author of three novels. Black Rock (Serpents Tail) won the Prix du Premier Roman Etranger, a NAACP award nomination, was shortlisted for McKitterick Prize, and selected as an Oprah Winfrey Summer Read. Her second novel, A Kind of Eden, set in contemporary Trinidad (2013) was optioned as a TV series. Her […]

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