Amílcar Peter Sanatan is a PhD candidate in Cultural Studies at The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus and a 2024 Bocas Breakthrough Fellow. His poetry has appeared in BIM Magazine, Caribbean Review of Gender Studies, The Caribbean Writer, Cordite Poetry Review, Gutter, Interviewing the Caribbean, Magma, Moko Magazine, PREE Lit, Sargasso and Sinking City. Sanatan is an alumnus of the Obsidian Foundation’s Writers’ Retreat (United Kingdom, 2020) and the Cropper Foundation’s Caribbean Creative Writers’ Residential Workshop (Trinidad and Tobago, 2019). He has performed spoken word poetry and coordinated open mics in Trinidad and Tobago for over a decade.