David Codling
David Codling is the British Council Regional Arts Director, Americas. The interplay between the arts, politics, and social issues is a constant feature of his work.
Hadassah K. Williams
Hadassah K. Williams is a writer from Trinidad and Tobago, and the winner of the first BCLF Elizabeth Nunez Award for Writers in the Caribbean. A mentee of Earl Lovelace and Monique Roffey, she is currently working on her first novel and her work can be found in Moko Magazine and Interviewing the Caribbean. Her […]
Daniel José Older
Daniel José Older is a Brooklyn-based writer, editor, and composer. He is the author of the Bone Street Rumba novels, including Half-Resurrection Blues; the ghost noir collection, Salsa Nocturna; and the Young Adult novel Shadowshaper.
Désha A. Osborne
Désha A. Osborne is an adjunct assistant professor at Queens College and Hunter College, CUNY. She completed her PhD in English at the University of Cambridge, where her research was a full-length study of Hiroona, the epic 19th-century poem by Horatio Nelson Huggins. The first critical edition was published in 2015 by the University of […]
Sterling Kent aka Gamma Ghost
Exploring the themes of spirituality, societal ills, national pride, Caribbean identity and progress of the African Diaspora, Gamma Ghost has been a writing and performing as a lyricist and vocalist since 1998. Since 2004, he has since distinguished himself as one of the Caribbean’s most respected and sought after expressionists of spoken word poetry.
Colleen Selvon-Rampersad
Colleen Selvon-Rampersad hails from a family of writers and has a nursing-teaching background. She serves as secretary of the Writers Union of Trinidad and Tobago (WUTT). Her work is published in Voicing Our Vision 1, These Heavenly Shores, Prism and more.
Danielle Y.C. McClean
Trinidad-born and US-based writer, translator and interpreter, Danielle Y. C. McClean is the author of the Secrets of Oscuros series. Her debut novel, Secrets of Oscuros: The Protectors’ Pledge (CaribbeanReads 2017, illustrator: Lorena Soriano), placed third in the 2016 CODE Burt Award for Caribbean Young Adult Literature, and its sequel, Secrets of Oscuros: The Whisperer’s Warning (CaribbeanReads 2022, illustrator: Rachel Moss) was the […]
Florenz Webbe Maxwell
Florenz Webbe Maxwell was born in Bermuda. She received her inspiration to write while a student at the Central School. Her poem, A Song of Central, written at age 12, was later put to music by David Knights, another student at Central and became the school’s song. In 1972, she won first place for the […]
Tamika Gibson
Tamika Gibson is the author of Dreams Beyond the Shore, winner of the 2016 CODE Burt Award for Caribbean YA Literature and one of Kirkus Reviews Best Teen Books of 2017. Between growing up in Trinidad and Tobago and living in the United States, Tamika has always been observing the rich stories unfolding around her. She […]
Lance Dowrich
Lance Dowrich won the 2016 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for the Caribbean with “Ethelbert and the Free Cheese”. His two books to date have been published by Notion Press of Chennai, India. These are: A Plethora of Dead Ends (July 2021) and Long Rope for Magga Goat (March 2026). His story from 2016 was part […]
Sean Samad
Sean Samad is lecturer in Lusophone and Brazilian culture at UWI St. Augustine since 2013. Previous academic stints have seen him as Lecturer for Arts and Creative Enterprise Management Postgraduate diploma, UWI St. Augustine, Guest Lecturer at the Institute of International Relations, UWI St. Augustine and in Intercultural Communication at Linnaeus University in Sweden. His passion […]
Nickolai Salcedo
Nickolai Salcedo is an actor, singer/songwriter, musician and visual artist. Frontman for the band Gyazette that he has spearheaded for 8 years, Nickolai has also been seen in a wide variety of theatre roles, including his critically acclaimed performance of King Oberon/Duke Theseus at the Trinidad Theatre Workshop’s 2013 production of A Midsummernight’s Dream. He played […]
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 […]
Vanda Radzik
Guyanese Vanda Radzik is a longtime social activist and cultural organiser, and co-editor of the literary journal Kyk-over-al.
Carolina Arrieta Castillo
Carolina Arrieta Castillo is Visiting Lecturer in Spanish at the UWI, St. Augustine. She is also a doctoral candidate in Applied Linguistics at the University of Salamanca, Spain. She completed her undergraduate studies in Spanish Language and Literature at the University of Granada in 2009. She holds MA’s in both teaching Spanish as a Second Language (University of […]
Nell Leyshon
Nell Leyshon is a British novelist and playwright and is currently Visiting Fellow at the University of Southampton. She is the author of four novels: Black Dirt (2004), shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Prize (Eurasia Region, Best First Book) and longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction; Devotion (2008); The Colour of Milk (2012), which won the Libro del Ano […]
Merissa Aguilleira
Merissa Aguilleira, Trinidadian right-handed batsman, plays for the West Indies women’s cricket team and is a former captain.
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”.