Her poetry collection The Dyzgraphxst won the 2021 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, the Windham-Campbell Prize for poetry, the Griffin Poetry Prize, the Derek Walcott Prize, the 2021 Joseph Stauffer literature prize by the Canada Council for the Arts, and was a finalist for the Trillium and Governor General’s awards for English poetry. Born in St.Lucia, she is poetry editor at publishers McClelland & Stewart and assistant professor in the School of English & Theatre Studies at the University of Guelph in Canada. Her forthcoming work of fiction is Code Noir: Metamorphoses (Knopf, 2023). Her previous works include the acclaimed Voodoo Hypothesis (2017)
