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Lisa Outar

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Biography

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 Co-Editor-in-Chief 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 was the chair of the nonfiction judges for the 2023 OCM Bocas Prize.

Years Attended

2023 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2025 Adult’s Festival Participant

Lisa Outar

Speaker
Guyana, USA
Events Featuring Lisa Outar
2025
Book Launch: Celeste Mohammed and Olive Senior
Festival Programme Event
Fiction Event
Event Date: May 4, 2025 @ 4:30 pm
Old Fire Station
2025
Bocas Henry Swanzy Award: The Many Lives of JWIL
Festival Programme Event
Big Ideas Event
Event Date: May 4, 2025 @ 1:00 pm
AV Room
2023
The Swanzy Diaries
Festival Programme Event
Book Launch Event
Event Date: April 30, 2023 @ 1:00 pm
AV Room