Alissa Trotz
Alissa Trotz is Professor of Caribbean Studies at New College and Director of Women and Gender Studies at the University of Toronto. She is also affiliate faculty at the Dame Nita Barrow Institute of Gender and Development Studies at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados. She is editor of the anthology The […]
Conrad Parris
Conrad Parris is an actor, voice talent and media personality with over 20 years experience. He started his career on stage with the Trinidad Theatre Workshop in 1995 with the New Actors Programme, helmed by Bernard Hazell. While there, he made his debut in Immortelle Theatre Company’s production of “Santa Claus, Mixed Nuts and Fruitcake”; […]
Rabindranath Maharaj
Rabindranath Maharaj is the author of six novels and three short story collections. His novel The Amazing Absorbing Boy won both the Toronto Book Award and the Trillium Fiction Prize. Other books were nominated for various awards, including the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, The Chapters First Novel Award, the OCM Bocas Prize, the Rogers Fiction Award, […]
Nicole Roberts
Nicole Roberts is a Senior Lecturer in Spanish at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago. She is also a translator. She has published widely on race and ethnicity in the Hispanic Caribbean, and also on Hispanic-Caribbean literature, language and culture. Her most recent publication is the edited volume: Trinidad y […]
Grace Aneiza Ali
Grace Aneiza Ali is an Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow in the Department of Art & Public Policy at the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. A curator and editor, she is the founder and editorial director of OF NOTE Magazine— an award-winning nonprofit arts journalism initiative reporting on the intersection of art and politics […]
Andy Knight
Professor W. Andy Knight is former Director of the Institute of International Relations at UWI, St. Augustine in Trinidad and past Chair of the Department of Political Science of the University of Alberta. He is currently Professor of International Relations in the Political Science Department at the UA and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada […]
Celia A. Sorhaindo
Guabancex (Papillote Press), her poetry chapbook, was longlisted for the 2021 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature and Radical Normalisation, her first full length poetry collection, was just published by Carcanet Press. Born in the Commonwealth of Dominica, brought up in Britain and now based back in Dominica, she co-compiled Home Again: Stories of Migration […]
Chike Pilgrim
Chike Pilgrim is an Oxford-educated archaeologist, and a writer and historian from Trinidad and Tobago. His creative work has been published in Kwani Magazine, one of Africa’s most prominent literary magazines, as well as in Moko and The Caribbean Writer, two of the Caribbean’s top literary journals. www.chikepilgrim.com
Lasana M. Sekou
Lasana M. Sekou (St. Martin, Caribbean), is a poet, journalist, author, publisher. He has authored over 20 books of poetry, short stories, monologues, and essays. He is the founder of House of Nehesi Publishers (HNP) and is the co-founder of the annual St. Martin Book Fair. Awards and honors include an International Writers Workshop Visiting […]
Andil Gosine
Andil Gosine is Professor of Environmental Arts & Justice at York University, Toronto. Dr. Gosine’s scholarship and artistic and curatorial practices examine imbrications of ecology, desire and migration, and include numerous publications and multimedia projects, including his forthcoming monograph, Nature’s Wild: Love, Sex and Law in the Caribbean (Duke). Recent exhibitions of his work include rêvenir (Port of Spain, 2020), Deities, Parts I & II (New York in 2019), and Coolie […]
L. A. Wanliss
L.A Wanliss is a teacher and is the CEO of L.A.Wanliss Editing and Consultancy. She has released a poetry chapbook, imago; is the dramaturge for Quilt Performing Arts Company, and is currently working as script editor. She is completing an MFA in Creative Writing at UWI St Augustine. She is published in many journals, and has […]
Richard Fung
Richard Fung is a Trinidad-born, Toronto-based video artist, cultural critic and Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Art, OCAD University. His documentaries Dal Puri Diaspora (2012) and Nang by Nang (2018) have been recently broadcast in Trinidad and Tobago.
Kenyon Farrow
Kenyon Farrow is an award-winning writer, activist, and strategist. He is currently the senior editor of TheBody.com.
Samiya Bashir
Samiya Bashir is the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize Winner in Literature, and is currently in residence at the American Academy in Rome through 2020. Bashir’s most recent book of poetry, Field Theories, wends its way through quantum mechanics, chicken wings and Newports, love and a shoulder’s chill, melding blackbody theory (idealized perfect absorption, as opposed […]
Shineque Saunders
Shineque Saunders is a 22 year old Spoken Word artist who has been conquering both local and international slam stages. She was the winner of the Secondary Schools Poetry Intercol in 2016, winner of the Best Village Spoken Word competition in 2017, winner of the I Like Me So Poetry slam in 2018 and second […]
Zakiya ‘Griot’ Gill
Zakiya ‘Griot’ Gill is a writer and poet who “comforts the disturbed and disturbs the comfortable” with her unique style of poetry. In 2019, she was awarded Best Spoken Word Artiste (Female) at the Governor of Culture Awards and was nominated at National Youth Awards for in field of Culture and the Arts for her […]
Winston Trotman
Poet Winston Trotman has been writing for over 10 years but has only been performing for the past 5. He uses his work to discuss everything from his spirituality to current affairs.
Kamau Brathwaite
The Barbadian writer, scholar, and editor Kamau Brathwaite, who passed away on February 4th at the age of 89, was a towering figure in Caribbean letters and culture for half a century. Dozens of contemporary Caribbean writers — of both poetry and prose — acknowledge him as an influence and a mentor. Just days before […]
Tessa McWatt
Tessa McWatt’s most recent book is The Snag: A Mother, a Forest, and Wild Grief, winner of the 2026 OCM Bocas Prize for Nonfiction. Her seven novels include her latest, The Snow Line, shortlisted for the 2022 Gordon Bowker Volcano Prize. Her non-fiction work includes Luminous Ink: Writers on Writing in Canada, co-edited with Dionne Brand […]
Amanda Choo Quan
Amanda Choo Quan is a Trinidadian/Jamaican writer and poet. She is the winner for the 2020 Johnson and Amoy Achong Caribbean Writers Prize for Non-Fiction. A graduate of CalArts’ MFA in Creative Writing, she’s been a VSC, Truman Capote, Callaloo, Juniper, and Cropper Foundation fellow.
Melissa Doughty
Melissa Doughty is a writer and a journalist with the Trinidad and Tobago Newsday. She is shortlisted for the 2020 Johnson & Amoy Achong Caribbean Writers Prize, Non-fiction.
Lauren Francis-Sharma
Lauren Francis-Sharma is the author of Book of the Little Axe (May, 2020), and ‘Til the Well Runs Dry, which debuted in 2014 and was shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize, and awarded the Honor Fiction Prize by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. ‘Til the Well Runs Dry was also chosen as […]
Edwidge Danticat
Edwidge Danticat is the author of seventeen books, including Breath, Eyes, Memory, Krik? Krak!, a National Book Award finalist, The Farming of Bones, an American Book Award winner; the novels-in-stories, The Dew Breaker and Claire of the Sea Light, and The Art of Death, a National Book Critics Circle finalist for Criticism. She has also […]
Curdella Forbes
Curdella Forbes is a critically acclaimed Jamaican author. She currently lives in Maryland, USA, and teaches at Howard University. She is the author of A Tall History of Sugar, longlisted for the 2020 OCM Bocas Prize for Fiction.
Marva Newton
Marva Newton has worked extensively in music and theatre, in key performance and coordinating roles ever since her involvement in Rawle Gibbons’ calypso drama ‘Ah Wanna Fall’ in 1992. Over the past 25 years, Marva has straddled both the culture, arts and entertainment circuit and the corporate world as a Public Relations and Communications professional. Known […]
Roderick “Chuck” Gordon
Roderick “Chuck” Gordon is a Laventille-born and based artiste. Gordon won the Lord Brynner Independence Calypso Monarch competition in 2012 and the National Calypso Monarch competition in both 2015 and 2016. He has consistently performed in the finals of the National Calypso Monarch and International Groovy Soca Monarch. In 2018 & 2019, he portrayed leading […]
Caroline Mackenzie
Caroline Mackenzie is a Trinidadian writer whose short fiction has appeared in publications around the world. In 2017 she was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, and she won first prize for fiction in the 2019 Small Axe Literary Competition. Her debut novel One Year of Ugly was released in May 2020.
Tamara Groeneveldt
Tamara Groeneveldt was born in St. Martin in 1984. She grew up in the traditional fishing village of Grand Case as it was rapidly evolving into a virtual international “cuisine capital of the Caribbean.” Groeneveldt started writing poetry as a St. Maarten Academy high school student. She joined the Young Poets Society while attending the […]
Seth Sylvester
Seth Sylvester is the 2016 First Citizens National Poetry Slam champion, and a spoken word poet from Trinidad and Tobago.
Yvonne Weekes
Yvonne Weekes, PhD, is a writer of poetry, prose, and drama from Montserrat. She has taught theatre and English in London, England and in Montserrat before moving to Barbados in 1996, following the Soufrière Hills volcano eruption. Her poetry and prose have appeared in Interviewing the Caribbean, Wadagabei, and Poui. Weekes is a Frank Collymore […]