Otancia Noel is a writer from Trinidad and Tobago. She grew up between the south and the Jamaat Al Muslimeen compound. She has a degree in Mass Communication and an MFA in Creative Writing Prose Fiction. Her stories, articles, and scholarly articles have been published in various journals. She was longlisted for the Johnson and Amoy Caribbean Prize both in fiction (2019) and non-fiction (2020). She is also winner of the Hachette and Hodder Education UK Island Voices Caribbean Contemporary Prize 2022. Town on Fire is her debut short fiction collection