Andre Bagoo is an award-winning poet and writer from Trinidad and Tobago and the author of several books of poetry including Burn (Shearsman, 2015) and Pitch Lake (Peepal Tree Press, 2017). He is a former newspaper journalist and his essay collection on art and literature, The Undiscovered Country (Peepal Tree Press, 2020) won the 2021 OCM Bocas Prize for Non-fiction.
Andre Bagoo
Author
Trinidad & Tobago
Awards
2021 OCM Bocas Prize for Nonfiction Winner
Years Attended
2016 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2015 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2017 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2018 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2019 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2019 Carifesta Participant, 2020 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2021 Adult's Festival Participant, 2021 Workshop Facilitator