Makyba Breezie
Makyba Breezie is from the Village of Mero in Dominica. She holds a MA in English Literature from Andrews University and lectures at the Dominica State College.
Rita Leone
Rita Leone, the pen name of Rita Joseph-Olivetti, is a retired judge from Grenada, the spice isle of the Caribbean. In 2019 she published her first novel The Red Door, a work of historical fiction set in the Caribbean. She enjoys spending time with family, travelling, and reading, and she takes a keen interest in […]
Chris Baball
Chris Baball, originally from Rio Claro and Curepe in Trinidad and Tobago, now lives in Geneva, Switzerland. He is a retiree from the United Nations, having worked there for over 19 years, and before at the Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago. Since retirement, he has journeyed into writing. He is a member of the […]
Tamara Lowe
Tamara Lowe is a poet and spoken word artist from Dominica, the nature island of the Caribbean. Tamara started writing as a child and has always been an avid reader. She draws inspiration from her own life experiences and from that of everyone around her. Tamara is currently the Country Manager of Tropical Shipping in […]
Alex de Verteuil
Alex de Verteuil is a documentary filmmaker and published poet. He has lived in the UK where he worked as a journalist, in France as a student and then in the oil industry in Nigeria, Iran, Libya and Scotland. He is now retired and lives with his wife in Tobago
Shimiah Lewis
Shimiah Lewis is a twenty four year old UWI Sociology graduate. She was the 2013 recipient of the National Youth award in the field of performing arts and has been an active participant in the performing arts for twelve years. She is a four time semi-finalist, as well as a two time finalist at the […]
Javaughn Forde
Javaughn Forde is a contemporary multidisciplinary artist based in Trinidad and Tobago. His work is centred around magical realism and the human experience. Javaughn has published bodies of poetry, hosted and participated in multiple visual art galleries as well as put out his own, at home, recorded musical mixtape by the title “Thoughts of The […]
Mareeka Dookie
Born in Trinidad and Tobago and raised in Sint Maarten, Mareeka Dookie, Founder of Sustainable Support Services, is an Education Development Professional. With a Masters of Arts in Teaching (MAT) and a passion for Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) Mareeka strives for achieving the 2030 Agenda; for sustainable, inclusive, and resilient societies tackling climate change […]
Omari Joseph
Omari Joseph is a recent graduate of The UWI St Augustine. He was born in Saint Lucia, raised in Guyana, and studied in Trinidad and Tobago. The International Tourism Management graduate epitomises the Caribbean citizen. His essays have been published by CAF Development of Latin America and the ILO. In his writing, he often covers the struggles of Caribbean youth and the future of the Caribbean region.
Natalee Legore
Natalee Legore is an experienced talk show host and journalist, currently based at TTT.
Jeanelle Clarke
Jeanelle Clarke is a trade and development policy specialist with a focus on creative economy and Small Island Developing States. She is a national of Barbados and Antigua and Barbuda. Jeanelle currently serves as Advisor to the Executive Director of the International Trade Centre based in Geneva, Switzerland. Prior to this role, she worked at […]
Jayron Remy
DJ, Television Show Host, Event Producer, Music Producer and Sound Engineer. These are the skills that Jayron “Rawkus” Remy has gathered over his 20 years in the entertainment industry. Popularly known for hosting Vintage Unplugged, he currently hosts on The Now Morning show on TTT and has a radio show on Talk City 91.1fm called […]
Yolanda T. Marshall
Yolanda T. Marshall is a Guyanese-born author of Keman’s First Carnival, Sweet Sorrel Stand, A Piece of Black Cake for Santa, Miles Away in the Caribbean, and My Soca Birthday Party: with Jollof Rice and Steel Pans, which made CBC’s Best Picture Books list 2020. She lives in Canada and is dedicated to writing children’s […]
Farouk Jr.
Farouk Jr. is an actor, born in San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago. He is currently pursuing singing, songwriting, and acting wherever opportunities arise. He graduated with honors, obtaining a B.Sc. in Music Business from the Trevecca Nazarene University in Nashville, TN USA. He has most recently taken part in the stage production Believe: Bring Us […]
Reea Rodney
Reea Rodney is a resident of Brooklyn, New York, but is originally from Indian Walk, Moruga in Trinidad. She has acquired a BSc. in Healthcare Management, in addition to an Associate’s in Occupational Studies with a major in Medical Assisting and several certifications. As a serial entrepreneur, Reea holds the titles of Self-Publishing Consultant and […]
Jay T. John
Jay T. John is a non-binary Trinidadian poet who uses art to contextualize and highlight the nuanced experience of otherness. Their poetry has appeared in the 2018 anthology Unwritten: Caribbean Poems after the First World War and they are a finalist for the 2021 Johnson and Amoy Achong Caribbean Writers Prize.
Akhim Alexis
Akhim Alexis is a writer born and raised in Trinidad where he is currently pursuing an MA in Literatures in English and teaches part-time as an Assistant Lecturer in the Writing Centre at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine. His poetry and creative non-fiction has appeared in The McNeese Review, Moko Magazine, Juked, […]
Maisy Card
Maisy Card holds an MFA in Fiction from Brooklyn College and is a public librarian. Her writing has appeared in Lenny Letter, School Library Journal, Agni, Sycamore Review, Liars’ League NYC, and Ampersand Review. Maisy was born in St. Catherine, Jamaica, but was raised in Queens, New York. Maisy earned an MLIS from Rutgers University and a BA in English and American Studies from Wesleyan University. She […]
Ardene Sirjoo
With over 13 years’ broadcast experience, Ardene is a popular voice on news and current affairs station i95.5FM. She is also co-founder and a director of Trini Good Media, a digital media company specialising in audio production. Ardene Sirjoo is a Trinidadian journalist as well as the Communications Lead at The Cropper Foundation.
Nadja Nabbie
Nadja Adora Nabbie is a writer who champions the empowerment of women through narratives that depict healing from trauma, connection to the body and self-love. A scholarship winner, Nabbie secured a Masters in Creative and Critical Writing at the University of Sussex before returning to Trinidad to publish her first title, My Own SBA Toolkit […]
Alecia McKenzie
Alecia McKenzie is a Jamaican writer and the author of Satellite City, Stories from Yard, Sweetheart and, most recently, A Million Aunties. Her short fiction, poetry and other writing have appeared in a range of literary journals and in anthologies such as Stories from Blue Latitudes, The Oxford Book of Caribbean Short Stories, Global Tales, […]
Stephanie Ramlogan
Stephanie Ramlogan is a Caribbean writer from Trinidad and Tobago. Her published work ranges from blogs to critical essays to fictional short stories. After being short-listed for the BCLF Caribbean Nunez Writer’s Prize in 2019 and winning it in 2020, Stephanie is now dedicated to uplifting Caribbean Stories through both fiction and non, and dissecting […]
Sharma Taylor
Sharma Taylor’s novel What a Mother’s Love Don’t Teach You was published in July 2022 by Virago Press in the UK. She won the 2020 Wasafiri Queen Mary New Writing Prize, the 2020 Frank Collymore Literary Endowment Award, and the Bocas Lit Fest’s 2019 Johnson and Amoy Achong Caribbean Writers Prize. Four times shortlisted for the […]
Cherie Jones
Cherie Jones is an award-winning author from Barbados. Her debut novel HOW THE ONE-ARMED SISTER SWEEPS HER HOUSE has been critically acclaimed by several publications including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times and Washington Post and is Good Morning America’s Bookclub pick for February, 2021. Cherie’s past publication credits include PANK, The Feminist Wire […]
Leone Ross
Leone Ross was born in England and grew up in Jamaica. Her first novel, All the Blood Is Red, was longlisted for the Orange Prize, and her second novel, Orange Laughter, was chosen as a BBC Radio 4 Women’s Hour Watershed Fiction favourite. Her short fiction has been widely anthologised and her first short-story collection, […]
Wandeka Gayle
Wandeka Gayle is the author of Motherland and Other Stories (Peepal Tree Press 2020). She is a Jamaican writer, visual artist, and Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Spelman College. She earned her Ph.D. in English/Creative Writing from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and has received writing fellowships from Kimbilio Fiction, Callaloo, the Hurston/Wright […]
Daria-Ann Martineau
Daria-Ann Martineau was born and raised in Trinidad and Tobago. She holds an MFA in Poetry from New York University and is an alumna of several writing conferences, including Bread Loaf and the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley. In 2017, Anomaly nominated her poem “When I have left my body” for a Pushcart Prize. […]
Desiree C. Bailey
Desiree C. Bailey is the author of What Noise Against the Cane (Yale University Press, 2021), winner of the 2020 Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize. She is also the author of the fiction chapbook In Dirt or Saltwater (O’clock Press, 2016) and has short stories and poems published in Best American Poetry, Best New […]
Marlene Daut
Marlene L. Daut specializes in Caribbean, African American, and French colonial literary and historical studies. Her first book, Tropics of Haiti: Race and the Literary History of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1789-1865, was published in 2015 by Liverpool University Press’ Series in the Study of International Slavery. Her second book, Baron de […]
Sudhir Hazareesingh
Sudhir Hazareesingh was born in Mauritius. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and has been a Fellow and Tutor in Politics at Balliol College, Oxford, since 1990. He has written extensively about French intellectual and cultural history; among his books are The Legend of Napoleon, In the Shadow of the General and How […]