David Furlonge
David Furlonge is the Head Cricket Coach at the Queen’s Park Cricket Club (QPCC), since 2010. During this period they have won 11 out of 18 titles, placing second in 5. He has coached at QPCC since 1995. He is the holder of a Level 3 Australian Coaching Certificate. He captained the T & T under […]
Sharon Jorcil-James
Sharon Jorcil-James is experienced in the local book industry. She was the Purchaser at a leading bookstore for 25 years, and is now Education Manager at Nigel R. Khan Bookseller. She is currently writing a book of short stories and poems and does storytelling in homes for underprivileged children.
Elisha Efua Bartels
elisha efua bartels is a writer, performer, teacher, director and stage-manager, and a founding member of Metamorphosis Dance Company. She spent time in Washington D.C. acquiring her degree in the Performing Arts, performing and stage-managing with companies from Bowen Macaulay Dance to the Washington Shakespeare Company and Folger Shakespeare Library, and freelancing as an associate […]
Merissa Aguilleira
Merissa Aguilleira, Trinidadian right-handed batsman, plays for the West Indies women’s cricket team and is a former captain.
Marina Salandy-Brown
Marina Salandy-Brown, Bocas Lit Fest founder and President, is a T&T Newsday columnist. Her writing has appeared in international journals and magazines and the New Daughters of Africa anthology (2019).
Andrew Fitt
Andrew Fitt is an artist whose account of his life with cerebral palsy, Aching to Be, was published in 2015. He has been exhibiting in Trinidad since 2000, with five one-man shows and a group exhibition. He also exhibited ten pieces of work at the Art Fusion Gallery in Miami, which was part of Art Basel 2012.
Kwame Ryan
Kwame Ryan is a Canadian-Trinidadian conductor, currently teaching at UTT’s National Academy of Performing Arts.
Che Lovelace
Based in Port of Spain, Trinidad, Che Lovelace’s art originates primarily from his experience of living and working in Trinidad and Tobago. His paintings are rendered in a vivid assortment of acrylic and dry pigment on combined board panels. They are strongly rooted in depicting the dense, highly charged layers of the Trinidadian landscape which he […]
Ararimeh Aiyejina
Ararimeh Aiyejina is a Trinidadian writer, featured in the anthology New Worlds, Old Ways: Speculative Tales from the Caribbean.
Wendell Manwarren
Wendell Manwarren is an actor, rapso artiste, music producer, masman, and Carnival bandleader whose theatrical productions have consistently won awards both locally and internationally.
Michael Cherrie
Michael Cherrie, actor, drama coach and UTT lecturer won the 1994 award for best supporting actor in Walcott’s Joker of Seville. His work has taken him to the USA, UK, Canada and the Caribbean.
Anton Nimblett
Anton Nimblett, a Trinidadian who lives and writes in Brooklyn, is the author of the short story collections Sections of an Orange and Now/After. His fiction and poetry appear in several literary journals and in the anthologies Our Caribbean, War Diaries and The Peepal Tree Book of Contemporary Caribbean Short Stories. Anton has presented work widely in the US […]
Elizabeth Solomon
Elizabeth Solomon is CARICOM’s Assistant Secretary-General, Foreign and Community Relations. A citizen of Trinidad and Tobago, she has more than thirty years of legal, communications, and foreign service experience, at both regional and international levels. She has served in various senior-level capacities in the United Nations system, covering complex conflict recovery, governance and foreign relations […]
Maria Nunes
Maria Nunes is a Trinidad and Tobago photographer and producer who works in the field of cultural heritage, specializing in imagery of carnival-based traditions and the work of performing artists. Her book In a World of Their Own: Carnival Dreamers and Makers was published by Robert and Christopher Publishers in 2018.
Anderson Patrick
Anderson Patrick has been performing Black Indian mas for over 30 years. He is the King or Okenaga of the band “Warriors of Hurracan”.
Darlington Henry
Darlington Henry has been a prominent figure in Black Indian mas for over 50 years. He was long associated with the legendary Narie Apro in his bands “Warriors of the Black Continent” and “Last of the Black Tribe”. He still portrays this mas every year as a member of “Warriors of Hurracan”.
Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw
Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw is a Professor of French literature and Creative Writing at the University of the West Indies. She has published scholarly articles and essays on Francophone Caribbean Literature and had co-edited several works including Border Crossings: A Trilingual Anthology of Caribbean Women Writers; Methods in Caribbean Research: Literature, Discourse, Culture; Echoes of the Haitian […]
Judith Theodore
Judith Theodore is an artist, author, playwright and actress. She is a contributor to Trinidad Noir and Moving Right Along: Caribbean Stories in Honour of John Cropper. Her short play The Big Debate was showcased in a Trinidad Theatre Workshop production in February 2010.
Adam Andrews
Adam Andrews, writer, musician, and academic, is fulfilling his goal of re-inventing the Caribbean intellectual. He loves conversing with plants and writing stories about people.
Stephen Brown
Stephen Brown is a qualified educator with a passion for creativity and creative learning. He is, at present, on indefinite recess from the public secondary school system furthering his creative qualifications in the advertising industry.
Ian F. Ali
Ian F. Ali teaches English at the secondary level and has taught at various schools for the past three decades. He is currently working on his second novel, a sequel to his as yet unpublished first.
Betty Peter
Trinidadian Betty Peter grew up on the islands of Grenada, St. Lucia, and St. Vincent. She is a recipient of NALIS’ First Time Authors Award for Brown Sugar and Spice (2010). Because of her passion for literacy and literature, she spends much of her time interacting with young people and reading at schools and libraries, […]
Ty N. Batson
Ty N. Batson, a health-systems development specialist by day, is an avid reader of crime thrillers and hard-boiled detective stories. He is author of the crime thriller Mr Big (2010). He is currently working on the sequel.
Elspeth Duncan
Elspeth Duncan is a published writer (Daisy Chain, 2011 and Tobago Peeps, 2015), Kundalini Yoga instructor, photographer, musician, and restauranteur (“Table for Two”). She currently lives in Tobago with her celebrity dog: Venus the Doggess of Love.
Jeanne Mason
Jeanne Mason is a Trinidadian resident who has promoted reading, writing and drama in Trinidad since her arrival in 2002. As a writer and editor, she started a writers group at NALIS from which several members went on to publish their works. She is the co-editor the anthology Trinidad Noir (Akashic, 2008) and co-editor of the […]
Sylvan Joseph
Sylvan Joseph plays the traditional Carnival character of the Bookman.
Miguel Browne
Miguel Browne, storyteller, dialect poet, rhythm rhymer, Talk Tent star, and history teacher at St. Mary’s College, is a popular performer of long standing.
Carolyn S. Seereeram-Harnanan
Carolyn S. Seereeram-Harnanan is a former Head of the English Department at St. Augustine Girls’ High School. Since 2011, she has lived in Nova Scotia, Canada.
Damian Whiskey
Damian Whiskey is a folkloric Carnival performance artiste, storyteller and tutor with over 20 years experience. He is a multiple title “Midnight Robber” champion, portraying this traditional mas character since the age of ten. Currently his performances include Master of Ceremonies in character. He hosts workshops on the history, costuming and performance of the Midnight […]
Geeta Ramsingh
Geeta Ramsingh (Vaahini) is President of the Hindu Prachaar Kendra and a full time community worker. She has completed a four year scholarship in India, studying and conducting research in Chennai and Varanasi. Geetaji conducts poojas and satsangs throughout Trinidad. She is a composer and traditional decorator and teaches in heritage camps for children.