Celeste Mohammed is a Trinidadian lawyer-turned-writer. Her debut novel-in-stories Pleasantview (Jacaranda, 2021) won the 2022 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, the 2022 CLMP Firecracker Award for Fiction and was a finalist for the UK Society of Authors McKitterick Prize. Celeste holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Lesley University, Cambridge, Massachusetts and she received a 2018 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers.
Celeste Mohammed
Author
Trinidad & Tobago
Years Attended
2018 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2019 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2021 Bios and Bookmarks Participant, 2022 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2022 Bocas UK Tour
