Willi Chen
Willi Chen is a highly acclaimed Trinidadian writer, artist and sculptor. Mainly self-taught, he has exhibited in mixed shows in Trinidad, the United Kingdom and the USA, and has held one-man shows locally. Over the years, Chen has written over 20 plays, and his short stories have been included in several anthologies, including the Oxford […]
Jorge Franco Ramos
Jorge Franco Ramos was born in Medellín, Colombia, and studied Film Direction at the London International Film School and Literature at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. ROSARIO TIJERAS, published in 1999, has enjoyed spectacular commercial success in Colombia and marked the breakthrough of one of the most promising writers of new Latin American narrative. It was […]
Zahra Gordon
Zahra Gordon is a Caribbean-American poet and writer with more than 10 years of experience. Her love for literature inspired her to found Speakeasy Solutions, a social enterprise providing culturally sensitive private tuition and writing workshops. Gordon is an alumna of Howard University where she majored in English with a minor in Caribbean Studies. She […]
Vanessa Croft-Thompson
Vanessa Croft Thompson holds a Bachelor’s in Education in English Literature and a Master of Arts in English Language from the University of the West Indies. An avid writer, her poetry has been published in Where I See The Sun: an Anthology of Anguillian poetry. She is a long-time winner in the Malliouhana Poetry Competition […]
Scott Ting-A-Kee
Scott Ting-A-Kee is graduate of the University of Guyana and holds a Bachelor’s of Arts in English Literature. At 25 years of age, he has served as a teacher and assistant examiner for CAPE Literatures in English. He has a passion for reading and enjoys comparing literature of the east and west. He won The […]
Robert Edison Sandiford
Sandiford is the author of several books, among them The Tree of Youth, winner of Barbados’ Governor General’s Award of Excellence in Literary Arts; And Sometimes They Fly, recipient of a BMA “Brands of Barbados” Award; and Sand for Snow, shortlisted for the Frank Collymore Literary Award. His graphic novels for NBM Publishing (nbmpub.com) have […]
Ruel Johnson
Ruel Johnson, 39, writes poetry and fiction and is currently working on a screenplay. He is a past winner of the Guyana Prize for Literature for his fiction, a winner of Small Axe prizes for his fiction and poetry. He is a fellow of the Cropper Foundation Writers’ Workshop (2000) and the Iowa Writers’ Program […]
Gabrielle Mohamed
Gabrielle Mohamed, a 26 -year-old Guyanese poet. In June 2017, she graduated from the University of Guyana with a Bachelor of Arts in English – Linguistics. She is passionate about Literature and Linguistics and as an emerging Creole poet, is attempting to capture the continual influence of colonial and post-colonial attitudes and behaviours within her […]
Esther Phillips
Esther Phillips is a columist, poet and educator from Barbados. She is the author of The Stone Gatherer a collection of poetry, which features the poem “Unwritten Poem”. In February 2018, she was appointed the first Poet Laureate of the Caribbean island-nation. She attended the Barbados Community College at the University of the West Indies […]
Frank McField
Dr. McField, a former Government Minister and Executive Council Member in the Cayman Islands Government, is one of the region’s finest living playwrights. Dr. McField has been described by Trinidad’s foremost Playwright, Arts/Culture Educator and Theatre Practitioner, Rawle Gibbons as, “Belonging to a class of writers rare enough at this time in the Caribbean – […]
D.J. Simmons
D.J Simmons is a pure Bajan poet. This award winning spoken word artist and acclaimed writer has been performing and developing the art of poetry and creative writing in Barbados for the past decade. He is a multiple award winner at the National Independence Festival Of Creative Arts (NIFCA), including Gold, and the inaugural winner […]
Colette Jones-Chin
Collette Jones-Chin is a graduate of the University of Guyana (UG) with a Bachelor‟s Degree (BA) in Art Education and Painting and of the Burrowes School of Art (BSA), Guyana, with a Diploma in Painting and Graphic Arts. She is as an Educator, Writer, Artist, Dramatist, Arts Therapist, Dramaturgist, Interior, Set & Costume Designer who […]
Daryll Goodchild
A love for reading and writing lead Daryll Goodchild, age 21, to keep and regularly update a journal of his childhood years. Naturally, his experiences grew with time and he started to write short stories featuring odd subjects that frequently crept into his consciousness. Daryll’s adolescent years brought with it an insatiable need for expression, […]
Chadd Cumberbatch
Chadd Cumberbatch is both a visual and performing artist. He studied fashion textiles at Brighton Polytechnic in the UK and has won local and regional awards for his fashion and costume design. He also writes, and has won numerous awards for his poetry. His works have been included in several anthologies. He has published one […]
Tristan Walker
Tristan Walker is a police officer and father to three daughters. His daughters not only motivate him to write, but to also be a good role model for young persons in Trinidad and Tobago’s society. Mr. Walker hopes that his commitment to becoming an author despite life challenges, will inspire young persons around him to […]
Regina Dumas
Regina Dumas is the owner/manager of an eco-lodge located in rural Tobago and established along the principles taught to her by the rural communities and their non-governmental institutions whose cause she has long sought to serve. Regina’s memoir, Memoir of a Cocoa Farmer’s Daughter, is written as a tribute both to her parents and to rural […]
Jennifer Thomas-Straker
Jennifer Thomas-Straker was born in Ste Madeleine Village, South Trinidad. She attended Naparima Girls’ High School, Corinth Teachers’ College and the University of the West Indies with a B.Sc in Sociology. A teacher for 28 years, she published her first book The Village, The Child in 2018.
Esbeth Callender-Braithwaite
First time author Esbeth Callender-Braithwaite chronicles the experience of trying to adopt a child in her novella Empty Arms.
Theresa Awai
Theresa Awai is an award winning stage, television & film actress and playwright. Her first play “Trini’s Last Carnival” was staged in 2004 at the Little Carib Theatre. In 2006 “Coming Home” won the National Drama Association of Trinidad and Tobago Playwriting Competition and was produced by Raymond Choo Kong Productions. Her latest plays “Happy […]
Motilal Boodoosingh
Motilal Boodoosingh is a short story writer. His stories have been published in several Caribbean magazines, and he has also published two volumes of short stories.
Prithiviraj Bahadursingh
Dr. Prithiviraj Bahadursingh is a Consultant Community Paediatrician working with the South West Regional Health Authority. He works mainly with children with disability and he has been a keen advocate to improve services for children in Trinidad and Tobago. His first novel For the Love of Pan was written to help build awareness and educate about […]
Nicola Ramsaran
Nicola Ramsaran is an author and a certified John Maxwell Speaker and mental health advocate. With a Masters’ Degree and twenty-five years in Education, she retired as Principal to write her journey of life with her Schizophrenic Mom. Her vision: to give voice to the voiceless and support those involved in mental health awareness.
Lesley-Ann Brown
Lesley-Ann Brown is a Trinidadian-American educator, poet and writer who has been based in Copenhagen, Denmark for the past 20 years. She studied Writing and Literature at Eugene Lang College at the New School in New York City and has written for Vibe, the Source and NBCBLK. Considered a pioneer in the blogosphere with blackgirlonmars, Brown also […]
Rawiya Hosein
Rawiya Hosein is a Trinidadian author currently residing in Canada. She holds a BA in Literatures in English with Linguistics from the University of the West Indies and is awaiting examination of her MFA Creative Writing thesis. Rawiya is the winner of the John Steinbeck Award for Fiction (2021) and the NGC Bocas Youth Writer […]
Alexandra Stewart
Alexandra Stewart is a career poet, Teaching Artist and MFA Student, shortlisted for the 2023 NGC Bocas Youth Writer Award. A history maker in the First Citizens National Poetry Slam (8-time finalist, only 3-time Champion, and only consecutive winner) she has stood in the winner’s row for the last 5 years. Alexandra’s passionate performances echo […]
Desiree Seebaran
Desiree Seebaran is a Trinidadian writer and editor. She is an alum of the Cropper Foundation Residential Workshop for Writers (2010) and the inaugural Moko Magazine Poetry Masterclass (2018). Her work has been shortlisted for the 2014 Small Axe Literary Competition (poetry) and the 2017 Frontier Poetry Award for New Poets Contest. Her poem ‘Picong’ […]
Jacqueline Laguardia
Jacqueline Laguardia is a Cuban academic, teaching at the Institute of International Relations, UWI, St. Augustine. She is an economist and expert in Caribbean and regional relations.
Merle Hodge
Merle Hodge is a Trinidadian writer, author of the novels Crick Crack Monkey (1970) and The Life of Laetitia (1993), as well as co-facilitator of the Cropper Foundation Writers’ Workshop.
June Soomer
Jane Soomer, a longtime diplomat from St. Lucia, is the first woman to head the Association of Caribbean States, based in Trinidad and Tobago. She is an historian by profession.
Paula Gopee-Scoon
Paula Gopee-Scoon is Trinidad and Tobago’s Minister of Trade and Industry, with 12 years in public office. Her background is in law and she is a banker by profession.