Lisa Outar is an independent scholar and editor who publishes in the fields of Indo-Caribbean literature, Caribbean feminist writing and the connections between the Caribbean and other post-indentureship spaces. From Port Mourant, Guyana, she serves as Managing Editor of the Journal of West Indian Literature and is at work on a manuscript about feminist engagements with religion and folklore in Indo-Caribbean women’s writing. She is co-editor of Indo-Caribbean Feminist Thought: Genealogies, Theories, Enactments, published by Palgrave Macmillan.
She is the chair of the nonfiction judges for the 2023 OCM Bocas Prize.