Celeste Mohammed is a lawyer-turned-writer. Her debut novel-in-stories, Pleasantview, is the winner of the 2022 OCM Bocas Prize for Fiction. Celeste holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Lesley University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. She is the recipient of a 2018 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers. She was also awarded the 2019 Virginia Woolf Award for Short Fiction, and the 2017 John D Gardner Memorial Prize for Fiction. Celeste lives in Trinidad and Tobago with her family.
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
