Ira Mathur

Author of Love The Dark Days (Peepal Tree Press), a memoir on the emotional ruins of Empire on three generations of women, set in Trinidad, St Lucia, India and Britain and bookended by a weekend with Derek Walcott — longlisted for the 2023 OCM Bocas Prize. Mathur is an Indian-born Trinidadian multimedia journalist and columnist with a body of writing that includes over 800 columns. Mathur studied creative writing at The University of East Anglia/Guardian & the Faber Academy and was longlisted for the 2019 Johnson and Amoy Achong Caribbean Writers Prize. She holds degrees in literature, law and journalism.