Johan Chuckaree
Johan Chuckaree started playing pan aged 4, becoming a staple frontline player for the iconic Phase II Pan Groove led by Len Boogsie Sharpe and an international pan ambassador. In 2013 he co-founded the Indigisounds Steelpan Sample Library to promote pan internationally on digital platforms.
Sterling Henderson
Sterling Henderson is a well known journalist with over 15 years experience. His life experience, which includes living in New York, Jamaica and TT, leads to the launch of his debut album When Soca Full Meh Mouth.
Kumar Mahabir
Dr Kumar Mahabir is an Assistant Professor at the University of Trinidad and Tobago (UTT). He obtained his Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Florida and his BA and M.Phil. degrees in Literatures in English from UWI, St Augustine. Mahabir is the author of twelve (12) books including two national bestsellers Caribbean East Indian Recipes and Medicinal and Edible Plants. His most […]
M. James Cooper
M James Cooper was born in Trinidad & Tobago. A graduate of Temple University with a B.A. in English Education & African Studies, his writing can be found in Moko Magazine & Black Issues. His collection Tomorrow, Please God: The Seven Narratives, is described as African centered, steeped in Caribbean folklore & cultural narrative styles.
Amanda T. McIntyre
Amanda T. McIntyre is a feminist writer, pan-Africanist, cultural activist and co-director of Caribbean feminist group WOMANTRA. Her most recently published work includes the short stories Rainy Season, and Petite Careme, published in Womanspeak; Journal of Writing and Art by Caribbean Women.
Freetown Collective
At the centre of Freetown Collective are Muhammad Muwakil and Lou Lyons; poets, lyricists and musicians. Joined onstage by the distinct voices and harmonies of three young women, often affectionately referred to as “the Trinity” or “the Freetown Lionesses”, the group’s motto is “a whole world to change.” Freetown uses music to bridge the gap […]
Helen Batson
Helen Williams Batson, pen-name ‘Khadine’ is a Theatre Practitioner, Actress, Performance Writer, Storyteller and Educator. Ms. Williams Batson is the Founder & Artistic Director of OMACA, formerly ‘Livewire’ a Children’s Performing & Developmental Company, with the projected goal statement, ‘producing gems.’ In 2017 Helen Williams Batson made her debut in her premiere solo performance ‘Shades […]
Kess the Illusionist
Majeed Karim
Majeed Karim is a 19 year old Junior Performance Poet with The 2 Cents Movement. He works with the organization Create Future Good and is also a member of the creative group 6Geng, founded in St. George’s College by him and his friends.
Aisha Acres
Aisha Acres is the founder of Connect the Dots, a consulting agency specialising in business strategy development and financial literacy education. The Money Adventures of Mike Murray and Friends is her first publication.
Kyle Hernandez
Kyle Hernandez is a creatively maladjusted writer and performer. He holds a BA in Theatre Arts (first class honors) and is the winner of The Motif Poetry Slam in Edinburgh, Scotland. Hernandez has leveraged his experience as a poet and award winning actor to write and direct productions all over the Caribbean. His published work […]
Everard McBain
Everard is a freelance graphic designer who operates under the brand GemGfx. He provides award winning graphic design support for several companies both locally and abroad. His most recent noteworthy design was the winning brand for the Tobago Clean Green Safe Serene campaign. He has been in love with drawing, comics and animation since he was a child. When […]
DH Gibbs
Hailing from her native Trinidad and Tobago, Author, Illustrator, and lifelong bibliophile D.H. Gibbs found a way to blend her creative abilities with her love of the written word. From her early days, she spent many waking moments crafting tales, honing her graphic design skills, or dreaming up elaborate vacation plans to satisfy her love […]
Jade Drakes
Jade Drakes is a Trinidadian jeweller with a fondness for all things craft and animal, especially the dog. She studied Metalsmithing and Theatre at Slippery Rock University, where she learned to work with animal horn and bone under Professor Robert J. Bruya – ‘The Road Kill King’. She went on to study Bench Jewellery and […]
Tracey Baptiste
Tracey Baptiste is the New York Times bestselling author of MINECRAFT: THE CRASH and the popular JUMBIES series, including THE JUMBIES, RISE OF THE JUMBIES, and THE JUMBIE GOD’S REVENGE. Her recent books include LOOKING FOR A JUMBIE, AFRICAN ICONS: TEN PEOPLE WHO SHAPED HISTORY and BECAUSE CLAUDETTE. She teaches in the MFA program at […]
Mervyn Taylor
Mervyn Taylor is a Trinidad-born poet who works in visual art. He has taught at the New School and in the New York City public school system and is the author of six books of poetry, including No Back Door (2010), which received the Paterson Award for Literary Excellence, The Waving Gallery (2014) Voices Carry […]
Muli Amaye
Muli Amaye is the author of A House With No Angels (Crocus, 2019). Her short fiction is published in many anthologies and journals. She is the Coordinator of the MFA Creative Writing Programme at The University of The West Indies, Trinidad. She has taught creative writing in education and the community for over 20 years. […]
Nicholas Laughlin
Nicholas Laughlin is festival and programme director of the Bocas Lit Fest and the former editor of Caribbean Beat and The Caribbean Review of Books. He has published two books of poems,The Strange Years of My Life (2015) and Enemy Luck (2019), and a book of genre-fluid “microtexts”, Bird Machine (2024). He is editor of […]
Derron Sandy
Derron Sandy is a Trinbagonian spoken word poet, and the 2021 First Citizens National Poetry Slam champion. He was longlisted for the Bocas Lit Fest’s Johnson and Amoy Achong Caribbean Writers Prize in 2021. He is artistic director of youth spoken word and theatre organisations the 2Cents Movement and the Quays Foundation. His debut chapbook […]
Bhoendradatt Tewarie
Bhoendradatt Tewarie is a former Minister of Planning and the Economy in the government of Trinidad and Tobago, and former Principal of the St. Augustine Campus of the University of the West Indies. He is a Naipaul scholar.
Nestor Sullivan
Nestor Sullivan, MA Carnival Studies, is former Captain and Manager of Pamberi Steel Orchestra, Chairman Eastern Region and VP & Public Relations Officer of the Steelband Association (Pan Trinbago), and Operations Manager of T&T National Steel Orchestra. He has played in and arranged steelbands tours in Europe, Asia, the UK and USA, and speaks internationally […]
Rudylynn De Four Roberts
Rudylynn De Four Roberts, architect and Past President and Fellow of the Trinidad and Tobago Institute of Architects, focuses on restoring historic buildings and lobbying for the preservation of national built heritage through Citizens for Conservation, The National Trust and the Queen’s Park Savannah Management Committee.
Ingrid Persaud
Ingrid Persaud’s novel Love After Love, set in Trinidad where she was born, won the 2020 Costa First Novel Award. Her new book is The Lost Love Songs of Boysie Singh, published in 2024. She also won the 2018 BBC National Short Story Award and the Commonwealth Short Story Prize in 2017. Her writing has […]
Savitri (Savi) Naipaul Akal
Savitri (Savi) Naipaul Akal was born in Trinidad, the fifth child and fourth daughter of Seepersad and Droapatie Naipaul, sister of Vidia and Shiva. Her family memoir The Naipauls of Nepaul Street will be published in May 2018.
Myron B
Myron B (Myron Bruce) is the 2018 Extempo Champion and a Dimanche Gras 2018 Calypso Monarch Finalist.
Celeste Mohammed
Celeste Mohammed is a Trinidadian lawyer-turned-writer. Her debut novel-in-stories Pleasantview (Jacaranda, 2021) won the 2022 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, the 2022 CLMP Firecracker Award for Fiction and was a finalist for the UK Society of Authors McKitterick Prize, and her debut non-fiction book A Different Energy: Women in Caribbean Oil was published in […]
Breanne McIvor
Breanne Mc Ivor was born and raised in Trinidad. She studied English at the Universities of Cambridge and Edinburgh before returning home. She has been shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, the Glimmer Train Fiction Open, the Fish One-Page Prize and the Derek Walcott Writing Prize. In 2015, she won The Caribbean Writer’s David […]
Keith Jardim
Keith Jardim is from Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana. His stories have appeared in many publications, and his book Near Open Water was published in 2011 by Peepal Tree Press.
Alexander Girvan
Alexander Girvan is an environmental economist with regional and international institutions such as the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the University of the West Indies to advance the inclusion of environmental factors in policy making decisions.
Mariel Brown
Mariel Brown is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and the director of SAVANT Ltd (savantmedia.tv), a creative and production company based in Trinidad and Tobago. She has worked in television and print since 1997. Her most recent film is the feature Unfinished Sentences, about her father, the late writer Wayne Brown.