Carol Mitchell
St. Kitts-Nevis born Carol Mitchell wears several hats in the literary world. Her debut novel for adults, What Start Bad a Mornin’, was published in September 2023 by Central Avenue Publishing, and her short story collection A Good Haunting is forthcoming in Fall 2026 with Akashic Books. She has also published 19 books for children, three with […]
Summer Edward
Summer Edward is a Gingko Prize longlisted author who writes for children and adults. Her children’s book, The Wonder of the World Leaf (HarperCollins UK/Collins Big Cat), was published on April 1, 2021. She also works as a children’s fiction editor at Heinemann, a readers’ advisory specialist at EBSCOHost Novelist, and reviews Caribbean children’s and […]
Colin Bootman
Colin Bootman, Trinidad born, New York raised, received his BFA from The School of Visual Arts in New York. Author of Young Frederick Douglass, 1994, he has illustrated and published more than twenty-five books. Recipient of many awards, he now splits his time between Trinidad and the US.
Grace Achoy
Grace Achoy is a Trinidadian librarian whose love of reading and passion for her heritage led to the creation of The Black Lake, which is loosely based on an Amerindian folklore about the Pitch Lake in La Brea. She lives in San Fernando.
Olive Senior
Olive Senior, Jamaica’s 2021-2024 Poet Laureate, is the award-winning author of 18 books of fiction, non-fiction, poetry and children’s literature and other published work. Her many awards include Canada’s Writers Trust Matt Cohen Award for Lifetime Achievement, the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, the Commonwealth Writers Prize, an honorary doctorate from the University of […]