Kela Roberts is a writer, blogger, and aspiring editor from South Trinidad, shortlisted for the 2023 NGC Bocas Youth Writer Award. She writes: “I have always been inspired by and driven to work within the literary community. Writing is more of a vocation than a hobby for me. I one day hope to publish my own collection of works, be it poetry, essays or fiction, and hope to continue my work within the literary space and grow in my craft.”