Lisa Ghany
Lisa Ghany is a Foundation Honorary Board member of the Down Syndrome Family Network, where she was instrumental in setting up the Endless Possibilities work mentorship programme for persons with Down syndrome and the network’s signature events for inclusion, advocacy and awareness. She has over 25 years’ experience in the area of Corporate Communications, Marketing, […]
Kenneth Suratt
Kenneth Suratt is the Executive Officer of the Trinidad and Tobago Blind Welfare Association and a prominent advocate for the visually impaired. Over the years he has been part of the team that won the legal case establishing the Equal Opportunity Commission, advocated for the amendment to the Copyright Act that makes printed materials accessible […]
Ark Ramsay
Ark Ramsay is a trans writer currently based in Barbados. Their work has appeared in or is forthcoming from The A-Line: Journal of Progressive Thought, Small Axe, Gertrude Press, Meridian, The Rumpus, Passages North, and The Gulf Coast. It has also been a finalist for the Inaugural Story Foundation Prize through Story Magazine, and an […]
Rori Heffes-Doon
Rori Heffes-Doon was born in Jamaica and moved to Trinidad when he was seventeen. Growing up, he always had a love for writing, especially after reading his first Stephen King novel, It. He is a copywriter, photographer, and screenwriter, and enjoys reading a varied selection of authors, from King to Rick Riordan. He also enjoys […]
Gavin Luke
Gavin Luke’s passion for writing is mainly served in his capacity as a freelance writer. His work experience allows for writing on a diverse range of topics, including business, creative industries, and sports and recreation. He has composed articles for mainstream newspapers and many monthly publications and magazines. Additionally he has had success in both […]
Tricia Chin
Tricia Chin is an attorney-at-law who started writing short stories during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Her writing is based on the folklore of Trinidad and Tobago, and she places her characters in local settings across Trinidad and during time periods that vary from the 1800s to present day. For the Dead is her third […]
Stephanie Kanhai
Stephanie Kanhai is a professional stilt-walker and costume designer from San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago. In 2015, she became the first Moko Jumbie and youngest person to win the National Carnival Queen title, with her portrayal of The Sweet Waters of Africa. She is the co-founder of Touch D Sky Moko Jumbies and has taught […]
Shynel Brizan
Shynel Brizan is a professional Moko Jumbie performer and mas-maker from Pleasantville, Trinidad and Tobago. She is a two-time National Queen of Carnival winner — as Mariella, Shadow of Consciousness from the band presentation Palace of the Peacock by Moko Somõkõw (2019), and Olugbe-rere ko, the Spirit Who Brings Good Things (2022). In 2023, she […]
Cecily Alexander
Cecily Alexander has always written and journaled. She recently published her memoir Immigration, Race and Survival: From Trinidad to Canada: Living in Parallel Worlds. The memoir is a collection of many journals she has kept over the years. She finds comfort in writing and uses journaling as her way of working through feelings and emotions. […]
Glenroy Taitt
Dr. Glenroy Taitt, librarian, historian and photographer, is currently Head of the West Indiana and Special Collections Division of the Alma Jordan Library at UWI, St. Augustine. His research interests include Caribbean church history, Caribbean theological libraries, Guadeloupean and Trinidadian history, and community histories. He is the author of St. Joseph (Trinidad) Through the Eyes of […]
Janique Dennis – Prescott
Janique Dennis-Prescott is an educator at The University of the West Indies in the Academic Literacies Programme within the Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics. Having edited and published poetry including hers, Janique’s ongoing PhD in Literature research is focused on the presentation of Ifá pataki in Cuba and Trinidad and Tobago, including analyses of […]
Paula Lindo
Paula Lindo is a journalist, writer, and queer and women’s rights advocate of Jamaican and Trinidadian parentage. She was born and grew up in Jamaica and moved to Trinidad in her 20s. She enjoys reading all genres, having been a reader since earliest childhood, and has an ever-growing TBR pile of Caribbean fiction and non-fiction. She […]
Dion Carrington
Dion Carrington is a writer from Trinidad and Tobago with a strong passion for the development of identity. He has been increasingly involved in artistic and cultural spaces in Trinidad and Tobago since his departure from secondary school. He has written numerous internationally published articles about culture and the arts within the Caribbean for various […]
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 […]
Dion Michael Diaz
Dion Michael Diaz was born in Port of Spain and resides in Arima. He has been competing in Extempo competitions for more than nine years and is a five-time National Extempo Monarch finalist. In 2023, he released his first calypso, “Barry’s Law”.
Roslyn Williams-George
Roslyn Williams-George has been involved in NGO activities for the last twenty-two years, and currently holds the position of Director of the Cashew Gardens Community Council. She believes that each community has the necessary resources it needs to protect the environment, build its human potential, and generate employment opportunities. She utilised the green spaces within […]
L. Renée
L. Renée is a poet and nonfiction writer, living in Harrisonburg, Virginia, where she works as Assistant Director of the Furious Flower Poetry Center and Assistant Professor of English at James Madison University. Her work, nominated for Best New Poets, Best of the Net and a Pushcart Prize, has been published in Obsidian, Tin House […]
Dragonzilla
Dragonzilla is the mascot of the NGC Children’s Bocas Lit Fest. This smiling friendly dragon lives in the Bocas del Dragón (Dragon’s Mouths) in the Gulf of Paria, but comes out to visit children who take part in the Children’s Storytelling Caravan, helping them to develop a love for reading, writing and storytelling.Â
Stephen Connolly
Stephen Connolly is a writer, editor and designer from Belfast. He is a founding editor of The Lifeboat Press, where he has published new work by Michael Magee, Paul Muldoon, Susannah Dickey, and Leontia Flynn. In 2022, he was appointed as the first Festival Curator at Listowel Writers’ Week, the oldest literature festival in Ireland.
Shakaila Forbes-Bell
Shakaila Forbes-Bell is the first Black person in the world to earn a master’s degree in fashion psychology. Her research surrounded the underrepresentation of Black models in fashion media, its impact on consumer behaviour, and the self-concept of young Black women. She has worked with global brands to unpack the psychological impact of style and […]
Sandra Pouchet Paquet
Sandra Pouchet Paquet is Professor Emerita of English at the University of Miami. She is the author of The Novels of George Lamming (1982), Caribbean Autobiography (2002), and co-editor of Music, Memory, Resistance: Calypso and the Caribbean Literary Imagination (2007). She has published widely in Caribbean literature in the leading journals in the field and […]
Patricia Saunders
Patricia Joan Saunders is an associate professor of English at the University of Miami and a senior editor of Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal. She is the author of Alienation and Repatriation: Translating Identity in Anglophone Caribbean Literature and, most recently, Buyers Beware: Insurgency and Consumption in Caribbean Popular Culture, longlisted for the 2023 OCM […]
N.G. Peltier
N.G. Peltier is an anime-watching, book-reading, video-game playing, story-writing kinda girl. A devourer of words and books from a young age, she enjoys writing romance and creeping people out with the Caribbean folklore stories she grew up hearing. A Trinidadian born and raised, she currently lives in Trinidad with her mountain of ideas and characters […]
Christopher Laird
Christopher Laird is a film-maker and producer who has produced over 300 documentaries, dramas and other video productions with Banyan Ltd. over the past 40 years garnering a score of national, regional and international awards. He has overseen the establishment of what is arguably the world’s largest digitised collection of Caribbean culture on video in […]
Wendy Yawching
Wendy Yawching was the first female Captain of T&T’s national airline, the first Trinidadian woman to hike the trail to Mt Everest Base Camp, and the first Master Feng Shui consultant in T&T. The Courage to Fly, her first book, became an Amazon bestseller in 6 categories within 24 hours of online launch. It has […]
Angela Laquis-Sobrian
Angela Laquis-Sobrian is an inspirational speaker, facilitator, and professional coach for individuals and organisations. During her years as a teacher, trainer and Vice President, Human Resources, of a company with over three thousand employees, she has empowered hundreds of individuals to take control of their lives and pursue their passions. Encouraging and approachable, her tell-it-like-it […]
Ronald Harford
Ronald Harford began his career as a post boy at Barclays Bank, which became Republic Bank in 1976. At various intervals in his career, he was assigned to several Caribbean countries — Barbados, Grenada and Dominica — in which Barclays Bank had a presence. In Trinidad and Tobago, Harford made his way up the ranks. […]
Beverly Scobie
Beverly Scobie was born and grew up in Sangre Grande, Trinidad and Tobago. Her secondary schooling was followed by the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, and the Sir Hugh Wooding Law School, St. Augustine, Trinidad, where she studied law. She relocated to the USA in 1984, where she currently resides. Since her […]
Dylan Kerrigan
Dylan Kerrigan is an anthropologist with a particular interest in the social history of race, class and culture in urban Trinidad, specifically focusing on Woodbrook, Carnival, and Violence. His most recent book is Growing up Woodbrook — A Tapestry of Then and Now: An Amazing Square Mile in History (National Trust of Trinidad and Tobago, […]
Cheryl Bowles
Cheryl Bowles is a biochemist, and the founder and managing director of her brand Cher-Mère. She is a member of T&T’s Waldron family, whose history is chronicled in the book The Ladder We Ascend.