Al Ramsawak
Al Ramsawak has written over 300 children’s stories. He is also an artist, folklorist and recipient of the Media Award 1997 for the best television documentary, the President’s Humming Bird Silver Medal Award 2004 for folklore/culture, and is the story time columnist for the Sunday Guardian newspaper in the Sun Shine children’s magazine
Kim Johnson
Kim Johnson is a writer and cultural researcher and author of The Illustrated Story of Pan (2011). He was a research fellow at the University of Trinidad and Tobago, and winner of a 2011 Anthony N. Sabga Caribbean Award for Excellence.
Georgia Popplewell
Georgia Popplewell is a writer/editor and media producer and managing director of the international citizen media project Global Voices. She has worked in independent media since 1989. She started her career at the pioneering Trinidad and Tobago television production company Banyan and has worked on productions such as the Nickelodeon TV series Gullah Gullah Island, […]
Satnarayan (“Sat”) Maharaj
Satnarayan (“Sat”) Maharaj was a religious and cultural leader in Trinidad and Tobago. He was the Secretary General of the Sanatan Dharma Maha Sabha, the major Hindu organisation in the multi-ethnic society. A controversial and often criticized figure, Sat was also hailed as a champion of Hindus and Indians in the country and has been […]
Robert Antoni
Robert Antoni was born in the US of Trinidadian parents and grew up in the Bahamas. His first novel, Divina Trace (Quartet, 1991) received the Commonwealth Writers Prize. His other books are Blessed is the Fruit (Faber), My Grandmother’s Erotic Folktales (Faber), Carnival (Faber), which was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Prize 2006, and As […]
Ralph Maraj
Ralph Maraj is a former politician, Cabinet minister and teacher, and also a playwright and actor, having distinguished himself in the lead role of the film Bim.
Nicha Selvon-Ramkissoon
Nicha Selvon-Ramkissoon is a Trinidadian literary scholar, currently based at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine.
Oonya Kempadoo
Resident in Grenada and Canada, Oonya Kempadoo was brought up in Guyana, has lived in Europe and worked for most of her life in various Caribbean islands. She is author of Buxton Spice and Tide Running, winner of the Casa de las Américas Literary Prize for best English or Creole novel, and All Decent Animals. […]
Neil Bissoondath
Neil Bissoondath is a Trinidadian writer based in Canada where he now teaches Creative Writing at Université Laval. In 1986 he won the McClelland and Stewart award and the National Magazine award for his short story Dancing. In 2010 he was made a Chevalier of the Ordre national du Québec.
Martin Daly
Martin Daly, SC, is a Senior Counsel of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago and a former senator. His weekly column in the Trinidad Express focused on current affairs, with emphasis on the importance of art and culture to the well being of the society.
Marsha Pearce
Marsha Pearce is a cultural studies scholar from Trinidad and Tobago.
Kurtis Gross
Johnny Stollmeyer
Jackie Hinkson
Jackie Hinkson is a prominent Trinidadian artist. What Things Are True, his autobiography, was published in 2012 to accompany a retrospective of his work at the National Museum and Art Gallery in Port of Spain.
Giselle Rampaul
Giselle Rampaul was a Trinidadian literary scholar at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine. She was the founder and producer of The Spaces Between Words podcast
Helen Drayton
Helen Drayton is a writer, poet, artist, lecturer, and former independent senator in the parliament of Trinidad and Tobago.
Ian McDonald
Ian McDonald, born in Trinidad and based in Guyana, is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. In 1969, McDonald’s novel, The Hummingbird Tree was published to great acclaim and was later made into a BBC film. He has also published five collections of poetry.
Errol Sitahal
Errol Sitahal is a Trinidadian actor who has acted in television and Hollywood films, including A Little Princess (1995). Since returning to Trinidad from Canada, he has acted in local productions, which include playing the role of Sookdeo in Victor Edwards’s Iere Theatre production of Samuel Selvon’s A Brighter Sun.
Fedon Honore
David Sammy
David Sammy began a theatre career at Naparima College, winning acting awards at the Secondary Schools Drama Festival; also NDATT awards in 1983, 1985. Has participated in Best Village and SanFest. He is South’s reigning King of Jouvert 2013, 2014, and a member of the San Fernando Theatre Workshop since 1978. His credits include radio […]
Deborah John
Deborah John was a journalist for over thirty years. She also writes poetry and fiction, and is interested in the history and evolution of Trinidad and Tobago’s carnival and calypso.
Caron Asgarali
Caron Asgarali is a Chemistry teacher from Vistabella. She was the victim of a violent crime in January 2013. She shares her story of being shot, recuperation and spiritual renewal in her memoir From Lion to Lamb as a means of imbuing hope in others.
Beverley-Ann Scott
Beverley-Ann Scott is a medical doctor and author of the novels The Stolen Cascadura (2007), Is America She Gone? (2013) and The Lotus Blooms At Night (2020). She migrated from Trinidad and Tobago to the United States in 2014. Her novels deal with issues such as HIV/AIDS, domestic violence, class and gender inequality, homosexuality, crime, […]
Basil Ince
Basil Ince, a former Olympic athlete for Trinidad and Tobago, is the author of Olympian: 75 Years of Trinidad and Tobago in Olympic Sport, longlisted for the 2012 OCM Bocas Prize.
Saajid Hosein
Saajid Hosein is a Trinidadian BookTuber and Bookstagrammer. He runs the YouTube channel “Books are my Social Life” and the Instagram Page @musaho_books. Saajid’s main aim is to read diversely, with a special focus on Caribbean and Muslim literature, and recommend the stories he enjoys to his audiences.
Isoke Efia Edwards
Isoke Efia Edwards is a graduate of Howard University with a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Acting. Isoke spent many years between D.C. and NYC working every aspect of the stage and working with the likes of Al Freeman, Reggie Ray and Mike Malone. Locally, she jumped into television production, winning awards for her TV […]
Mandisa Granderson
Mandisa Granderson began singing and dancing as early as 3 years old and found her love for acting at age 10. She studied with Lilliput Theatre and continued acting while studying at Colgate University. Upon returning home she immersed herself in the local art scene and has performed with 3Canal, Griot Productions and First Instinct […]
Katherine Agyemaa Agard
Katherine Agyemaa Agard is a Trinidadian writer currently based in San Francisco. Her first book of colour is an auto-ethnography of the desire to, and subsequent refusal of, telling the story of oneself in binary terms to North American audiences. It begins with the account of a film never made, and continues with an exegesis of paintings […]
Conrad Parris
Conrad Parris is an actor, voice talent and media personality with over 20 years experience. He started his career on stage with the Trinidad Theatre Workshop in 1995 with the New Actors Programme, helmed by Bernard Hazell. While there, he made his debut in Immortelle Theatre Company’s production of “Santa Claus, Mixed Nuts and Fruitcake”; […]
Rabindranath Maharaj
Rabindranath Maharaj is the author of six novels and three short story collections. His novel The Amazing Absorbing Boy won both the Toronto Book Award and the Trillium Fiction Prize. Other books were nominated for various awards, including the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, The Chapters First Novel Award, the OCM Bocas Prize, the Rogers Fiction Award, […]