Kenroy Mulraine
Kenroy Mulraine is originally from the island of St Vincent. He left in 2001 to move to the UK, where he now lives with my wife and two beautiful children. He is currently writing a series of short stories based on the friendship of two creatures, cockroach and spider. He loves writing these stories as […]
Maryam Mallam
Maryam Mallam is an upcoming poet. She has a love for the arts and enjoys friendly competition.
Princess Lewis
Princess Lewis has written poems for as long as she can remember and finds peace and relief when doing so. She has never pursued it professionally due to financial constraints and a lack of knowledge as far as openings and opportunities for poets in Trinidad. She performed live for the very first time in 2021 […]
Kamarsha Sylvester
Kamarsha Sylvester hails from the nature island of the Caribbean; Dominica. She began writing as a result of unemployment and started enjoying doing it; she then realised that she was good at it. She is a lover of words and rhythm so poetry comes naturally.
Patricia J Adams
Patricia J. Adams, better known as Teacher Patsy, was born in The Farrington, Anguilla. She began writing cultural poetry during the Anguilla Revolution. She has published three anthologies of poems. Her work has been performed by schools, churches and clubs throughout Anguilla, the Caribbean and the Isle of Wight. Teacher Patsy writes the graduation songs […]
Nicholas Gilbert
Nicholas grew up in a family where history was preserved through an African practice known as storytelling. As a child, he heard many stories about his ancestors from his grandparents and parents. As a result, he grew to love storytelling and began to write stories from a tender age. His passion for story writing evolved […]
Celeste Rita Baker
Celeste is a Virgin Islander currently flitting between the beach and the grocery store as she tries to be one of the survivors of de ‘Rona pandemic. She chronicled Covid-19 in a rudely opinionated timeline of October 2019 through March 2020 after which she just could not ‘go another further’. Her book is on Amazon […]
Dex Gomez
Dex Gomez was raised by his grandparents in what many would consider the “ghetto” of East Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago but was determined to not become a product of his environment. From a young age, Dex considered himself an observer and admired the selflessness of his grandparents which definitely helped shape his perspective […]
Anella Shillingford
Anella D Shillingford, a Dominican poet, is a member of Waitukubli Artist Association and Waitukubuli Writers. She was featured in Caribbean Literature Day 2021 Stand & Deliver hosted by the NGC Bocas Lit Fest. She attended the Dominica State College where she majored in English Literature and History. She continues to be an advocate for […]
Harold Smart
Harold Mikal Smart is a retired primary school principal and is primarily a visual artist who specialises in copper chasing and repousse as well as acrylic painting. Also, he has a passion for writing poetry.
Sean Taegar
Sean Taegar, born 18 December 1980 in Belize, is a Belizean poet for whom words are God’s light of love. ‘Spirit Fire Light’ is his first book. He lives and works in Belize.
Mishael Henry
Mishael Henry is a spoken word artist who has been involved in the creative arts from a young age. He has shown his competence in various competitive spaces throughout the country, and at age of 15, Henry had already qualified for the semi-final of the National Poetry Slam. Henry also won the Entoto Keys to […]
David Edgecombe
David Edgecombe teaches Theatre, Playwriting and Directing at the University of the Virgin Islands. His productions are numerous and include Heaven, whichenjoyed a 25th Anniversary revival at UVI in 2016, having premiered in 1991 and toured St. Maarten, St. Kitts, Antigua and Montserrat. He is former Director of the Reichhold Center for the Arts.
Madeline Coopsammy
Madeline Frances Coopsammy was born in Trinidad when it was still a British colony. She studied at Delhi University, India prior to immigration to Canada and settling in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1968. In 1987, she received her B.Ed. and M.Ed. from the University of Manitoba where her graduate thesis was entitled, “The Development of a […]
Ivy Higgins
Ivy Higgins is an educator and writer, who was born in Jamaica and now resides in The Bahamas.
Robin Kirkley
Robin is a creative storyteller who uses video and copywriting to engage his customers’ audiences. He started writing, producing and directing television ads when he worked in advertising agencies in the 1980s. Robin has always found that a story gets the best reaction, so it’s been his approach from his early days as a marketing […]
Thea Lise Broome
Thea Lise Broome is a recent Philosophy BA graduate whose first love is literature. She is working on the first draft of a historical fiction book on women and their role in the economy of Trinidad and Tobago.
J.A. Lovelock
J.A. Lovelock is a Barrister-at-Law. As an academic lawyer, she has spent a career in legal education which included lecturing, training, and examining. She has a passion for how crime is dealt with within the Criminal Justice System and has just created a podcast in that regard. She is also an author and her book […]
Stephanie Bowry
Stephanie Bowry, age seventy four, grew up and was educated in the town of New Amsterdam. She worked in the municipality there and later became very involved in social work and literacy with prisoners. Some of her sweetest moments, however, were with children in story-time and poetry time. She has since written poetry for particular […]
Arnold Ward
Arnold Ward is the prizewinning author of several books and plays, as well as an actor and director with the Green Room Players. He appeared in “Keeping up with the Joneses”, “Sweetbottom” and other films.
Aleah Charlemagne
Aleah Charlemagne is a mother, farmer, amateur baker, poet, adventurer and a student in the class of life.
Anthony N. Sabga III
Anthony N Sabga III is Group Chief Executive Officer of the ANSA McAL Group of Companies, T&T’s largest conglomerate and one of the largest in the Caribbean. He began his career with the Group’s media company, one of approximately 43 operational companies he now controls, having been involved in the directorship of many of them […]
Ivory Kelly
Ivory Kelly is the author of Point of Order: Poetry and Prose and Pengereng, a groundbreaking collection of short stories in English and standard Belize Kriol, her mother tongue. Her works also appear in journals and anthologies in the Caribbean, the UK, the US, Mexico, Brazil, and Belize. In 2018 she was the winner of […]
A. L. Dawn French
In 2021, A. L. Dawn French was inducted into the Saint Lucia 100 Women Hall of Honour, for her years of work in educating children through her stories. A prolific writer, A. L. Dawn French has had her work featured locally, regionally and internationally. She has been part of publications such as “Creation Fire” 1990 […]
Dharmbodh Westmaas
Frederick ‘Van’ Westmaas was born in Trinidad in 1946. Growing up in Piarco in the 50s, close to the Caroni River and spending time with his grandparents in Laventille, fuelled his thirst for adventure. He attended Hillview College, Tunapuna, where art and literature were the only subjects that inspired him. From his late teens, he […]
Murdina Wright
Murdina Wright was born in a dry narrow valley in the rocky tourist-less mountains of central Jamaica to an unmarried teenage mother and a Cuban refugee. She read for a B.A. at UWI Mona and an LL.B. at UWI Cavehill. Murdina lives in Connecticut USA where she is an MFA candidate.
Steffanie Edward
Steffanie Edward was born in St Lucia, but has spent most of her life in England. Anancy, crick-crick and other Caribbean folk stories have been a part of her life since childhood. In her late teens she enjoyed reading Susan Howatch and books on slavery. But her absolute favourite reads to-date have been ‘Wild Seed’ […]
D. E. Ambrose
D.E. Ambrose is a Communication Studies lecturer at the T.A. Marryshow Community College, Grenada. To date, he has published three books: White Spice; That Time in Bogles – A Carriacou Tale; and Zone One.
Fabien M. Thomas
Fabian M Thomas is a Calabash Writers Workshop Fellow. He has previously been published in Other Countries Press’ (NYC) Sojourner: Black Gay Voices in the Age of AIDS (1993), Gents, Bad Boys & Barbarians: New Gay Male Poetry (Alyson Books, 1995), Fighting Words: Personal Essays by Black Gay Men (Harper Collins Publishers, 1999), Chroma: A […]
Lexington Wilks
Lexington Wilks is a corporeal ray of sunlight whose mission is cultivating joy in life’s every endeavour. Having published in each medium, they write essays, poetry, letters, and prose. Though currently focused on writing their debut non-fiction project, they are their own greatest work.