Nicole Roberts
Nicole Roberts is a Senior Lecturer in Spanish at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago. She is also a translator. She has published widely on race and ethnicity in the Hispanic Caribbean, and also on Hispanic-Caribbean literature, language and culture. Her most recent publication is the edited volume: Trinidad y […]
Chike Pilgrim
Chike Pilgrim is an Oxford-educated archaeologist, and a writer and historian from Trinidad and Tobago. His creative work has been published in Kwani Magazine, one of Africa’s most prominent literary magazines, as well as in Moko and The Caribbean Writer, two of the Caribbean’s top literary journals. www.chikepilgrim.com
Andil Gosine
Andil Gosine is Professor of Environmental Arts & Justice at York University, Toronto. Dr. Gosine’s scholarship and artistic and curatorial practices examine imbrications of ecology, desire and migration, and include numerous publications and multimedia projects, including his forthcoming monograph, Nature’s Wild: Love, Sex and Law in the Caribbean (Duke). Recent exhibitions of his work include rêvenir (Port of Spain, 2020), Deities, Parts I & II (New York in 2019), and Coolie […]
L. A. Wanliss
L.A Wanliss is a teacher and is the CEO of L.A.Wanliss Editing and Consultancy. She has released a poetry chapbook, imago; is the dramaturge for Quilt Performing Arts Company, and is currently working as script editor. She is completing an MFA in Creative Writing at UWI St Augustine. She is published in many journals, and has […]
Richard Fung
Richard Fung is a Trinidad-born, Toronto-based video artist, cultural critic and Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Art, OCAD University. His documentaries Dal Puri Diaspora (2012) and Nang by Nang (2018) have been recently broadcast in Trinidad and Tobago.
Shineque Saunders
Shineque Saunders is a 22 year old Spoken Word artist who has been conquering both local and international slam stages. She was the winner of the Secondary Schools Poetry Intercol in 2016, winner of the Best Village Spoken Word competition in 2017, winner of the I Like Me So Poetry slam in 2018 and second […]
Zakiya ‘Griot’ Gill
Zakiya ‘Griot’ Gill is a writer and poet who “comforts the disturbed and disturbs the comfortable” with her unique style of poetry. In 2019, she was awarded Best Spoken Word Artiste (Female) at the Governor of Culture Awards and was nominated at National Youth Awards for in field of Culture and the Arts for her […]
Winston Trotman
Poet Winston Trotman has been writing for over 10 years but has only been performing for the past 5. He uses his work to discuss everything from his spirituality to current affairs.
Amanda Choo Quan
Amanda Choo Quan is a Trinidadian/Jamaican writer and poet. She is the winner for the 2020 Johnson and Amoy Achong Caribbean Writers Prize for Non-Fiction. A graduate of CalArts’ MFA in Creative Writing, she’s been a VSC, Truman Capote, Callaloo, Juniper, and Cropper Foundation fellow.
Melissa Doughty
Melissa Doughty is a writer and a journalist with the Trinidad and Tobago Newsday. She is shortlisted for the 2020 Johnson & Amoy Achong Caribbean Writers Prize, Non-fiction.
Marva Newton
Marva Newton has worked extensively in music and theatre, in key performance and coordinating roles ever since her involvement in Rawle Gibbons’ calypso drama ‘Ah Wanna Fall’ in 1992. Over the past 25 years, Marva has straddled both the culture, arts and entertainment circuit and the corporate world as a Public Relations and Communications professional. Known […]
Roderick “Chuck” Gordon
Roderick “Chuck” Gordon is a Laventille-born and based artiste. Gordon won the Lord Brynner Independence Calypso Monarch competition in 2012 and the National Calypso Monarch competition in both 2015 and 2016. He has consistently performed in the finals of the National Calypso Monarch and International Groovy Soca Monarch. In 2018 & 2019, he portrayed leading […]
Caroline Mackenzie
Caroline Mackenzie is a Trinidadian writer whose short fiction has appeared in publications around the world. In 2017 she was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, and she won first prize for fiction in the 2019 Small Axe Literary Competition. Her debut novel One Year of Ugly was released in May 2020.
Seth Sylvester
Seth Sylvester is the 2016 First Citizens National Poetry Slam champion, and a spoken word poet from Trinidad and Tobago.
Willi Chen
Willi Chen is a highly acclaimed Trinidadian writer, artist and sculptor. Mainly self-taught, he has exhibited in mixed shows in Trinidad, the United Kingdom and the USA, and has held one-man shows locally. Over the years, Chen has written over 20 plays, and his short stories have been included in several anthologies, including the Oxford […]
Zahra Gordon
Zahra Gordon is a Caribbean-American poet and writer with more than 10 years of experience. Her love for literature inspired her to found Speakeasy Solutions, a social enterprise providing culturally sensitive private tuition and writing workshops. Gordon is an alumna of Howard University where she majored in English with a minor in Caribbean Studies. She […]
Tristan Walker
Tristan Walker is a police officer and father to three daughters. His daughters not only motivate him to write, but to also be a good role model for young persons in Trinidad and Tobago’s society. Mr. Walker hopes that his commitment to becoming an author despite life challenges, will inspire young persons around him to […]
Regina Dumas
Regina Dumas is the owner/manager of an eco-lodge located in rural Tobago and established along the principles taught to her by the rural communities and their non-governmental institutions whose cause she has long sought to serve. Regina’s memoir, Memoir of a Cocoa Farmer’s Daughter, is written as a tribute both to her parents and to rural […]
Esbeth Callender-Braithwaite
First time author Esbeth Callender-Braithwaite chronicles the experience of trying to adopt a child in her novella Empty Arms.
Theresa Awai
Theresa Awai is an award winning stage, television & film actress and playwright. Her first play “Trini’s Last Carnival” was staged in 2004 at the Little Carib Theatre. In 2006 “Coming Home” won the National Drama Association of Trinidad and Tobago Playwriting Competition and was produced by Raymond Choo Kong Productions. Her latest plays “Happy […]
Motilal Boodoosingh
Motilal Boodoosingh is a short story writer. His stories have been published in several Caribbean magazines, and he has also published two volumes of short stories.
Prithiviraj Bahadursingh
Dr. Prithiviraj Bahadursingh is a Consultant Community Paediatrician working with the South West Regional Health Authority. He works mainly with children with disability and he has been a keen advocate to improve services for children in Trinidad and Tobago. His first novel For the Love of Pan was written to help build awareness and educate about […]
Nicola Ramsaran
Nicola Ramsaran is an author and a certified John Maxwell Speaker and mental health advocate. With a Masters’ Degree and twenty-five years in Education, she retired as Principal to write her journey of life with her Schizophrenic Mom. Her vision: to give voice to the voiceless and support those involved in mental health awareness.
Lesley-Ann Brown
Lesley-Ann Brown is a Trinidadian-American educator, poet and writer who has been based in Copenhagen, Denmark for the past 20 years. She studied Writing and Literature at Eugene Lang College at the New School in New York City and has written for Vibe, the Source and NBCBLK. Considered a pioneer in the blogosphere with blackgirlonmars, Brown also […]
Rawiya Hosein
Rawiya Hosein is a Trinidadian author currently residing in Canada. She holds a BA in Literatures in English with Linguistics from the University of the West Indies and is awaiting examination of her MFA Creative Writing thesis. Rawiya is the winner of the John Steinbeck Award for Fiction (2021) and the NGC Bocas Youth Writer […]
Alexandra Stewart
Alexandra Stewart is a career poet, Teaching Artist and MFA Student, shortlisted for the 2023 NGC Bocas Youth Writer Award. A history maker in the First Citizens National Poetry Slam (8-time finalist, only 3-time Champion, and only consecutive winner) she has stood in the winner’s row for the last 5 years. Alexandra’s passionate performances echo […]
Desiree Seebaran
Desiree Seebaran is a Trinidadian writer and editor. She is an alum of the Cropper Foundation Residential Workshop for Writers (2010) and the inaugural Moko Magazine Poetry Masterclass (2018). Her work has been shortlisted for the 2014 Small Axe Literary Competition (poetry) and the 2017 Frontier Poetry Award for New Poets Contest. Her poem ‘Picong’ […]
Merle Hodge
Merle Hodge is a Trinidadian writer, author of the novels Crick Crack Monkey (1970) and The Life of Laetitia (1993), as well as co-facilitator of the Cropper Foundation Writers’ Workshop.
Paula Gopee-Scoon
Paula Gopee-Scoon is Trinidad and Tobago’s Minister of Trade and Industry, with 12 years in public office. Her background is in law and she is a banker by profession.
Sofia Chote
Sofia Chote, attorney and Independent Senator in the Parliament of Trinidad and Tobago, was previously a public prosecutor, judge of the Supreme Court, and member of the Law Reform Commission and Mercy Committee.