Keon Francis

Keon Francis is a cultural administrator and arts practitioner dedicated to the unique culture and arts of Trinidad and Tobago. He has represented Trinidad and Tobago as an actor at CARIFESTAs X and XIV, written and directed plays for Best Village, and has reprised a lead role in the country’s annual Kambule production, an enactment recounting the beginnings of Trinidad’s Carnival. He is an alumnus of the Cropper Foundation Residential Workshop, completed an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of the West Indies, St Augustine, and is the author of the Caribbean epic fantasy novel Children of the Eternal Mother.