Safiya Sinclair
Safiya Sinclair, born and raised in Montego Bay, Jamaica, is the author of the memoir How to Say Babylon, longlisted for the 2024 OCM Bocas Prize and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Kirkus Prize, and longlisted for the Women’s Prize in Nonfiction.She is also the author of the poetry collection […]
Barry Goldblatt
Barry Goldblatt began his career in publishing in 1989, and opened his eponymous literary agency in September 2000. He represents everything from picture books to adult fantasy & science fiction. His clients include many bestselling and award winning authors, including Libba Bray (to whom he is also happily married), Angela Johnson, Kate Milford, Christopher Barzak, […]
Claudia de Verteuil
Claudia de Verteuil is the author of Paradise Plums and Cocoa Beans. She is currently in the final stages of an MA in Psychoanalysis, at Birkbeck University of London. She was born in Trinidad in 1953, was brought up there, leaving in 1972 to study for a teaching degree in London at Goldsmiths College. Claudia […]
Peter Straus
Peter Straus was a publisher for twenty years ending up as Macmillan Editor in Chief and publisher of Picador. He set up a poetry imprint at Picador. He then joined Rogers, Coleridge and White as a literary agent in 2002 . He is currently Managing Director of Rogers, Coleridge and White.
David Dabydeen
David Dabydeen is a Guyanese critic, writer, novelist and academic. His accolades include the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, the Quiller-Couch Prize and the Guyana Prize for Literature. In 2000 Dabydeen was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the second West Indian writer and the only Guyanese writer to be awarded the title.
Aaron Kamugisha
Aaron Kamugisha is the Ruth Simmons Professor of Africana Studies at Smith College. He is the editor of seven books and six special issues of journals on Caribbean and Africana thought, and author of Beyond Coloniality: Citizenship and Freedom in the Caribbean Intellectual Tradition (Indiana University Press, 2019). He is currently a member of the […]
Patricia Mohammed
Patricia Mohammed is a scholar, writer and filmmaker. She is Professor of Gender and Cultural Studies and Campus Coordinator/Chair, School for Graduate Studies and Research at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, a post she has held variously since 2007. She has headed the Institute for Gender and Development Studies at St Augustine […]
Kim Robinson-Walcott
Kim Robinson-Walcott, PhD, is editor/head of Caribbean Quarterly, University of the West Indies, Mona. She is also the editor of Jamaica Journal, published by the Institute of Jamaica. Her publications include the scholarly work Out of Order! Anthony Winkler and White West Indian Writing (UWI Press, 2006), Jamaican Art (Kingston Publishers, 1989, 2011) which she […]
Malaika Adero
Malaika Adero was vice president and senior editor at Atria Books/Simon and Schuster and is now a publishing consultant. She is the author of Up South: Stories, Studies, and Letters of This Century’s African American Migrations (The New Press) and lives in New York City.
Sushiela Nasta
Susheila Nasta, MBE, distinguished academic and literary critic is Founding Editor of Wasafiri: Magazine of International Contemporary Writing and has published widely on Caribbean, South Asian and Black British literatures. Recent books include India in Britain (2012) and Asian Britain: A Photographic History (2013). She is currently writing a biography entitled, The Bloomsbury Indians and […]
Brian Benoit
Brian Benoit is the Chief Executive Officer of the Benoit Academy of Steel Pan, Executive Producer of Panimation Studios and Author of the Legends of Panderica animated book series, the first steel pan animated book of it’s kind which won the Ideas to innovation (i2i) competition for innovative excellence and commitment to shaping the future […]
Gregory Thompson
A primary school teacher for twenty five years, Gregory Thompson is the author The Adventures of Manti and Andy, a series of environmentally aware picture books. For more information on the series, visit Manti and Andy’s official website. He is presently working on book projects which include poetry on local endangered species, as well as […]
Kahaya Sooklalsingh
Kahaya Sooklalsingh is the Programme Coordinator at the National Centre for Persons with Disabilities.
Melissa Matthews
Melissa Matthews is an artist, writer, and entrepreneur. She writes and illustrates stories based on the adventures of her beloved daughter, Makena. Â She published the first of these stories in 2016, Makaynuh & The Magical Curtains and is working on finishing and publishing a few more in the near future.
Britta Rajkumar
Britta is a primary school teacher who has a passion for teaching English and encouraging young ones to love reading. From a young age, reading was always a love as was caring for the environment. Britta plans on creating a series of books through Boysie to teach children how to care for their environment better […]
Sheetal Daswani
Sheetal Daswani is a mother, dreamer, author, wanderer, birth doula, educator and human rights defender. Sheetal primarily works as an education consultant on grassroots projects that are aimed at equipping at-risk communities with the tools needed to promote sustainable and meaningful social change.
Agyei Archer
Agyei Archer is a Graphic Designer with a strong focus in new products and design for education
Natalie Edgecombe
Natalie Edgecombe is a communications specialist from Montserrat. She pursued her undergraduate degree at Emerson College in Boston, and York University in Toronto. Following university, she found opportunity in Toronto as a freelance video editor and at Montserrat’s local television station PTV, gaining a wealth of hands-on experience. She went on to produce several documentaries […]
Janine Mendes-Franco
Janine Mendes-Franco writes: “Words have always been my thing. I was three when my brother was born; there was allegedly a welcome speech. I suspect, since I wasn’t great at verbal apologies back then, that once the sibling rivalry took hold, so did the writing: ‘Sorry for blowing out your birthday candles/wrecking your bike/selling you […]
Akilah Jaramogi
Akilah Jaramogi is the founder and managing director of the Fondes Amandes Community Reafforestation Project (FACRP). She is also a proud Merikin descendent, dedicated to preserving the heritage of this group of pioneering African Americans in Trinidad.
Valerie Taylor
Valerie Taylor is an Education and Development Consultant. She currently serves as the interim CEO at the National Trust of Trinidad and Tobago.
Nicholas Galt
Nicholas Galt, Managing Director of the software development companyTrinidad Sytems Ltd, is Chairman of the Association of American Chambers of Commerce of Latin America (AACCLA).Â
Marlene Attzs
Marlene Attzs, PhD, is a Lecturer in the Department of Economics, University of the West Indies (UWI), Trinidad and Tobago. Â She is also a founding member of the Sustainable Economic Development Unit (SEDU). She currently serves as a member of the Economic Development Advisory Board.
Jerome Teelucksingh
Jerome Teelucksingh is a lecturer in the Department of History at UWI, St Augustine. He focuses on the history of Afro-Caribbean activists and intellectuals, on Indo-Caribbean Diaspora in North America; on Pan-Africanism; on race, gender, and ethnic relations in the Caribbean; as well as labour history and the impact of Carnival and Calypso on Trinidad […]
Joshua Lue Chee Kong
Joshua Lue Chee Kong is a graphic artist who has a keen interest in history and culture and is currently exploring Trinidad and Tobago’s folklore. He is working to redefine traditional interpretations by expanding the cultural iconography and imagery.
Jorge Thielen-Armand
Jorge Thielen-Armand is a Venezuelan director. His documentary Flor de la Mar won the Jury Award for Best Documentary Short at the 2015 Cine Las Americas International Film Festival, and was screened at over 20 festivals around the world.
Marla Dukharan
Marla Dukharan is Group Economist for the Royal Bank of Canada’s Caribbean operation. She is responsible for monitoring over 20 countries in the Caribbean, and authors the RBC Caribbean Economic Report on a monthly basis.
Mark Loquan
Mark Loquan, President of the National Gas Company of Trinidad and Tobago Ltd. is a chemical engineer by profession, with over thirty years’ experience in the petrochemical industry. He is also an award-winning composer of steelpan music and Honorary Founding Director of the non-profit organisation Music Literacy Trust.
Michael Mooleedhar
Film director Michael Mooleedhar brings with him a wealth of experience in creative design entrepreneurship and has directed several shorts and docs within the local film industry. City on the Hill won people’s choice Award at ttff/2015 and Green Days by the River, his debut feature, won best TT feature and people’s choice for best […]
Tamara Lewis
Tamara Lewis is a trained mediator and Public Health Inspector at the Ministry of Health, Trinidad and Tobago. Currently attached to the Eastern Regional Health Authority she has worked across northern Trinidad since 2007. Through her educational and work experiences she has had the privilege to learn and experience the food service industry from a […]