Marguerite Joseph is a Saint Lucian author with more than thirty years of experience working across the Caribbean in personal, social, and community wellbeing. Her writing explores identity, silence, and the emotional lives shaped by Caribbean history and social realities. Drawing on her background in mental health and social care, her debut novel, Lady Under the Stairs, weaves psychological insight with historical and cultural storytelling while highlighting the unnecessary confinement and suffering of people living with mental illness. Through both her professional work and her fiction, Marguerite Joseph is deeply interested in how stories shape healing, meaning, and human connection.