Julie Morton
Julie Morton, publisher, writer and teacher, is the owner of Morton Books, a children’s bookstore and publishing house in St. James, Trinidad.
Anna Levi
Anna Levi was born to a Grenadian mother and a Trinidadian father in Trinidad. Her debut novel, Madinah Girl, was received special mention in the 2016 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature. She is currently doing an MFA in Creative Writing at University of the West Indies, writing her second novel and completing work on her first collection […]
Marsha Gomes-McKie
Author and Illustrator. Over a decade of self-publishing experience. Owner of Aajumbee Publishing House, Founder of Caribbean Books Foundation, Regional Advisor for the Caribbean South Chapter of the Society of Children Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) and Registered Writer and Artist with Artist Registry of the Ministry of Tourism, Culture and the Arts.
Melanie Archer
Melanie Archer is an award-winning freelance graphic designer and creative director. She has worked in the fields of illustrated book publishing and editorial design for more than 18 years. Melanie is partner/editor at Robert & Christopher Publishers, and an independent curator and writer with a focus on Caribbean art, architecture, and graphic design. https://melaniearcher.com/
Anu Lakhan
Anu Lakhan is a writer and editorial triage consultant. She writes about books and food. She facilitated a writing course at UWI, St Augustine for eight years. Her books include Letters to K (Argotiers Press, 2018) and The Proper Care of Knives (Argotiers Press, 2025)
Rhoma Spencer
Rhoma Spencer, Trinidad-born, Canada-based thespian, has produced, directed and acted in a number of productions, including Tony Hall’s acclaimed Jean and Dinah. Her company, Theatre Archipelago, seeks to present, promote and develop theatre from the Caribbean and its Diaspora.
Rikki Jai
Rikki Jai is a Trinidadian chutney soca artiste. He has won Chutney Soca Monarch a record-breaking six times.
Kurt Allen
Kurt Allen, a.k.a. “The Last Bardjohn of Calypso”, is the only Calypsonian who has been crowned International Soca Monarch, National Calypso Monarch and Young King.
Kenny Philips
Kenny Phillips is a Trinidadian music producer and owner of the production outfit, KMP Music Lab. He is also the CEO of WACK Radio, a radio station whose content is 100 per cent local.
Penelope Spencer
Penelope Spencer is an actress, director, writer, casting director, teacher and producer. She has an extensive career on the stage as actress performing in plays such as Moon on a Rainbow Shawl, You, Jean and Dinah, and Mary Could Dance. “Auntie Pennie”, as her students fondly know her, has been a storyteller and drama teacher […]
Nikki Crosby
Nikki Crosby is a popular broadcaster, stand-up comedienne and a multiple Cacique Award winner for her work in theatre. In 2008, she formed the first all-female theatre production company, Ha Ha Ha Productions, along with Penelope Spencer and the late Mairoon Ali.
Julian Rogers
Julian Rogers, MBE, is a veteran broadcast journalist and the CEO of Caribbean New Media Group (CNMG).
Kizzy Ruiz
Kizzy Ruiz, Trinidadian performer and calypsonian, is a past winner of the National Calypso Queen Competition and has been a National Calypso Monarch finalist multiple times. She works as a communication specialist and a broadcaster.
Lynette Seebaran-Suite
Lynette Seebaran-Suite, chairman of the Trinidad and Tobago Equal Opportunity Commission (EOC), is a litigator with over 35 years experience. She has been an influential advocate for the rights of women and girls, and is an avid supporter for legal reforms to protect against discrimination.
Muhammad Muwakil
Muhammad Muwakil is a Trinidadian poet and musician. He is a founding member of the band Freetown Collective.
Lou Lyons
Lou Lyons is a founding member of the band Freetown Collective. He is a musical innovator, adept guitarist and a producer.
Nazma Muller
Nazma Muller is a journalist and writer from Trinidad and Tobago. She is the media liaison and education officer for C420, a legally incorporated cannabis law reform NGO and has been advocating for marijuana legalisation across the region for the last 10 years. In 2015, she formed a political party, the Caribbean Collective for Justice, […]
Danielle Fraser
Danielle Fraser has been the Library Conservator and Head of the Preservation and Conservation (PAC) Laboratory at the Heritage Library Division, NALIS since 2009. She was a Book Conservation Fellow of the Library of Congress in 2008.
Portia Subran
Portia Subran is a Trinidadian artist and writer. She is the winner of the 2019 Cecile de Jongh Literary Prize from The Caribbean Writer, and the 2016 Small Axe Literary Short Story Competition. She was a finalist for the 2022 BCLF Short Fiction Story Contest, and longlisted for the 2019 Johnson and Amoy Achong Caribbean […]
Attillah Springer
Attillah Springer is a Trinidad born writer and jouvayist. She writes on culture and memory and has presented papers and written commissioned work on traditional mas, social justice and African spirituality in England, Brazil, Nigeria and Haiti. She is a Director of Idakeda Group, a collective of women in her family creating cultural interventions for […]
Gordon Rohlehr
Gordon Rohlehr, Guyana-born literary scholar long based in Trinidad, is Emeritus Professor at UWI, St. Augustine. His books include Calypso and Society in Pre-Independence Trinidad (1990), My Strangled City and Other Essays (1992), The Shape of That Hurt and Other Essays (1992), and A Scuffling of Islands: Essays on Calypso (2004), Perfected Fables Now: A […]
Angelique V. Nixon
Angelique Nixon is Senior Lecturer at the Institute for Gender and Development Studies, UWI, St. Augustine. Her scholarly book Resisting Paradise: Tourism, Diaspora, and Sexuality in Caribbean Culture (University Press of Mississippi, 2015) won the Caribbean Studies Association 2016 Barbara T. Christian Award. She is author of Saltwater Healing – A Myth Memoir and Poems […]
Deryck Murray
Deryck Murray is President of the Queen’s Park Cricket Club and former wicketkeeper for the West Indies cricket team, 1963–1980. His 1963 record for the most dismissals by a West Indies wicketkeeper in a Test series is unbroken.
Fazeer Mohammed
Fazeer Mohammed is a Trinidadian talk show host and cricket commentator.
Paul Keens-Douglas
Paul Keens-Douglas is an actor, author, and storyteller with a wide and varied background in Theatre and the Creative Arts. A leading exponent of Caribbean oral traditions, he is founder/producer of the annual Tim Tim Storytelling Show and the Carnival Talk Tent. He holds the Humming Bird Silver medal for contributions to Culture, the Zora […]
Barbara Jenkins
The memoir, The Stranger Who Was Myself (Peepal Tree Press/2022), is the Trinidadian author’s latest book. Prizes for her short stories include The Commonwealth Short Story Prize (Caribbean Region), The Wasafiri New Writing Prize, The Canute Brodhurst Prize, The Small Axe Short Story Competition and The Hollick-Arvon Fiction Prize. Sic Transit Wagon, her debut collection […]
Tony Hall
Tony Hall is an award-winning Trinidadian playwright, screenwriter, actor and director. His play Jean and Dinah (1994) is a critically acclaimed work in West Indian theatre.
Debbie Goodman
Debbie Goodman is Manager, Corporate Communications at the National Library and Information System Authority (NALIS), Trinidad and Tobago.
Michael Dash
J. Michael Dash, born in Trinidad, has worked extensively on Haitian literature and French Caribbean writers. His publications include Literature and Ideology in Haiti, Haiti and the United States, Edouard Glissant, and The Other America: Caribbean Literature in a New World Context, as well as English translations of Glissant’s work.
Anthony Vahni Capildeo
Anthony V. Capildeo FRSL is a Trinidadian Scottish writer of poetry and non-fiction. Currently Professor and Writer in Residence at the University of York, their site-specific word and visual art includes responses to Cornwall’s former capital, Launceston, as the Causley Trust Poet in Residence (2022) and to the Ubatuba granite of the Henry Moore Institute […]