Akhim Alexis is a writer born and raised in Trinidad where he is currently pursuing an MA in Literatures in English and teaches part-time as an Assistant Lecturer in the Writing Centre at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine. His poetry and creative non-fiction has appeared in The McNeese Review, Moko Magazine, Juked, Moth Magazine, Blue Earth Review, The Caribbean Writer, and others. He was a finalist for the 2020 Brooklyn Caribbean Lit Fest Elizabeth Nunez Award for Writers in the Caribbean for his short story ‘Gone America.’ He is a finalist for the 2021 Johnson and Amoy Achong Caribbean Writers Prize.