Stephen Narain
Stephen Narain is a graduate of the MFA programme at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and is at work on his first novel.
Jaime Lee Loy
Jaime Lee Loy is a contemporary artist and writer from Trinidad. Her literary fiction has been published by the St Petersburg Review, Akashic Books, NY, and Tongues of the Ocean’s Six-Word Stories. Her poetry appeared in Small Axe and was shortlisted for a prize. Her art appears on several International and local academic publications.
Eric Maitrejean
Eric Maitrejean is Lecturer in French and Conference Interpreting at the University of the West Indies. He translated into French Pantomime by Derek Walcott and short stories by Olive Senior and Shani Moottoo among others. He established at the UWI the Caribbean Interpreting and Translation Bureau (CITB) which provides professional language services to T&T and beyond.
Danielle Gianetti
Danielle Gianetti is a retired scholar/advertising executive/freelance writer. She is the joint editor of “The Flowering Rock”, collected poems of Eric Roach.
Ayanna Lloyd Banwo
Ayanna Lloyd Banwo is the author of the highly acclaimed novel When We Were Birds (Hamish Hamilton), winner of the 2023 OCM Bocas Prize for Fiction, and shortlisted for the overall prize. It was previously named one of the best debut novels of 2022 by the UK Observer. She is from Trinidad and Tobago and […]
Mark Raymond
Mark Raymond is an architect and educator. He worked on projects throughout Europe before returning to Trinidad in 1993. He assisted the architect Colin Laird on the design of the National Library and the Brian Lara Promenade whilst establishing his own practice. Mark has completed a wide range of architectural urban planning and design projects in Trinidad, Tobago […]
Dara Wilkinson-Bobb
Dara Wilkinson-Bobb was born in Sangre Grande and grew up in Tunapuna, Trinidad and Tobago. She teaches part-time as an Assistant Lecturer in the Writing Centre at the University of West Indies, St. Augustine Campus, and full-time at a girls’ high school. Dara has had stories published by Caribbean literary magazines and a children’s reader […]
June Aming
June Aming is a fiction writer who resides in Trinidad and Tobago. Her short stories have been included in several anthologies, and the story “Carnival Baby” was shortlisted for Small Axe competition 2014. She has previously shared her work at Carifesta X and at the Miami Book Fair 2013, 2014 and 2015. She was a […]
Marlon James
Marlon James was born in Jamaica in 1970. His most recent novel, Black Leopard, Red Wolf, is the first novel in James’s Dark Star trilogy. His previous novel, A Brief History of Seven Killings, was the winner of the 2015 Man Booker Prize, The American Book Award, and The Anisfield-Wolf Book Prize for fiction. He […]
Glenda-Rose Nassoma Layne
Glenda-Rose Nassoma Layne is a professional storyteller and has developed a programme to interpret art through dance and poetry. In 2006 she was a Gold Medalist in the Acting World Championship of the Performing Arts, Hollywood, California and again in 2007 she won two Gold Medals, one Bronze and one industry award for Acting & Spokesmodel in […]
Basdeo Panday
Basdeo Panday was the fifth Prime Minster of Trinidad and Tobago from 1995 to 2001, and has served as Leader of the Opposition from 1976–1977, 1978–1986, 1989–1995, 2001–2006 and 2007–2010.
Hazel McShine
Hazel McShine is a Trinidadian writer, who after completing a career as a Marine Biologist, has gone on to pursue a career in writing, which was her childhood dream. She is a member of the Writers Union of Trinidad and Tobago. Her short story “The Wall” was shortlisted for the 2014 Small Axe Literary Competition
Jenny Green
Jenny Green was born at Belle Vue in Shrewsbury, 1949. She went to School at The Priory and then went on to read English at Liverpool University. She trained as a Teacher at The Institute of Education, University of London. After teaching in London Comprehensives she and her partner, Lawrence Scott, from Trinidad went to […]
Vladimir Lucien
Vladimir Lucien is a writer from St. Lucia. He is the author of Sounding Ground, published by Peepal Tree Press, which won the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature in 2015. Lucien is also the co-editor of the anthology Sent Lisi: Poems and Art of St. Lucia.
Michael Cozier
Michael Cozier, is the author of Putting Up a Resistance!, shortlisted for the 2015 Burt Award for Caribbean Literature. Set at the end of the colonial era, this Young Adult novel explores the relationship of a Trinidadian boy of East Indian descent and a Trinidadian girl of African descent living in the system of divide and rule that prevails […]
Treldon Layne
Treldon Layne is a motivational speaker, author, poet, sole composer of wise sayings, and is the CEO of Treldon’s Greetings and The Treldon Layne Foundation. To date he has published two works of poetry entitled They Stole It, I Must Replace It and Rise Up and Bolt Forward.
Imam Baksh
Imam Baksh is a writer from Guyana. His manuscript Children of the Spider won first place in the 2015 CODE Burt Award for Caribbean Young Adult Literature, published in 2016 by Blue Banyan Books. His manuscript The Dark of the Sea is a 2018 CODE Burt Award finalist.
Diana McCaulay
Diana McCaulay is a Jamaican environmental activist and writer, a lifelong resident of the capital city of Kingston. Her forthcoming novel, A House for Miss Pauline, was published by Dialogue Books in the UK and Algonquin Books in the USA in February 2025. She has already written five novels: DOG-HEART (Peepal Tree Press ) HURACAN […]
Vaughn T. Stanford
Vaughn T. Stanford teaches mathematics at a Trinidad secondary school. He has written and produced plays and short films which include Conflicted, performed at Little Carib Theatre in conjunction with his students, and the award-winning Lianna’s Story about a teenage drug addict for which his students won the Tambi trophy. With the assistance of the Canadian […]
Vanessa Salazar
Vanessa Salazar is a Trinidadian young adult author. Her first novel, Selima and the Merfolk, begins a three-book series. She is currently working on the second book.
Frank Wynne
Frank Wynne is a literary translator from French and Spanish. His work has earned him won three major prizes for his translations from the French, including the 2002 IMPAC Prize (for Atomised by Michel Houellebecq), and the 2005 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and 2008 Scott Moncrieff Prize. He has translated a number of Spanish and Latin American […]
Michael Kelleher
Michael Kelleher is the director of the Windham-Campbell Literature Prizes at Yale University and former Artistic and Associate Director of Just Buffalo Literary Center in Buffalo, New York. His published collections of poetry include Visible Instruments (Chax, 2017), Museum Hours (BlazeVOX, 2016), Human Scale (BlazeVOX, 2007), and To Be Sung (BlazeVOX, 2004).
Aonghas MacNeacail
Aonghas MacNeacail is a native Gael from the Isle of Skye. Award-winning poet and songwriter in Gaelic, English and Scots. Poetry has taken him as far East as Japan, and West to Seattle, the UN Building in New York, the Capitol in Rome, and many points between.
Gerda Stevenson
Gerda Stevenson is an award-winning actor, writer, director and singer-songwriter. She has acted in original plays and dramatisations of classic Scottish novels for BBC Radio 4. Her publications include the stage play Federer Versus Murray, published in Salmagundi; the poetry collection If This Were Real, published by Smokestack Books, 2013; stage play Skeleton Wumman, toured in UK, 2014; CD of her […]
John O. Stewart
John O. Stewart is a prize-winning Trinidadian novelist and anthropologist. His titles include Last Cool Days; Curving Road; Drinkers, Drummers and Decent Folk; and Looking for Josephine. His work in narrative ethnography includes Project Colorful Skin (co-authored), and Kungo Nights—a collective memory of village Trinidad (in progress). Professor Emeritus, (UC Davis), he lives and works […]
Kelly Baker Josephs
Kelly Baker Josephs is Professor of English at the University of Miami. She is the author of Disturbers of the Peace: Representations of Insanity in Anglophone Caribbean Literature (2013) and co-editor of The Digital Black Atlantic (2021). She is currently Director of the Caribbean Digital Scholarship summer institute, co-organiser of The Caribbean Digital annual conference, […]
Fred D’Aguiar
British-Guyanese author of twelve books, including novels, poems and plays. Year of Plagues: A Memoir of 2020 is his latest book, his first non-fiction work and was named Book of the Year in 2021 by the New Statesman and The Times Literary Supplement (TLS). His acclaimed first novel The Longest Memory (1994) won the Whitbread […]
Andre Bagoo
Andre Bagoo is a writer, poet, and essayist. His books include the essay collection The Undiscovered Country (Peepal Tree Press, 2020), winner of the 2021 OCM Bocas Prize for Non-Fiction, as well as five poetry collections, most recently Midnight Bestiaries (Broken Sleep Books, 2024). His fiction debut, The Dreaming, was published by Peepal Tree in […]
Mark Lyndersay
Mark Lyndersay is a writer, editor and photographer based in Trinidad and Tobago. He is the editor of TechNewsTT.com, an online news publication covering technology developments in Trinidad and Tobago founded in 2014 and writes BitDepth, a weekly column which has explored personal technology continuously over the last 26 years. He is the editor of the […]
Black Sage
Black Sage aka Philip Murray is a calypsonian and renowned master of Extempo singing, and four-time national Extempo champion.