Omardath Maharaj
Omardath Maharaj is an Agricultural Economist, Lead Consultant of iTHiNK Global Consulting Services Limited, a by-line columnist in print and electronic media, Part-Time Assistant Lecturer at the UWI, St Augustine Campus, and a Ph.D. candidate at the University of the West Indies. Mr Maharaj has rendered service over the years to a range of community-based […]
Deneka Thomas
Deneka Thomas (they/them) is a queer, non-binary writer, performance poet, arts educator and media practitioner from Trinidad and Tobago. Deneka is the founder and Creative Director of Bacano Leaf, a creative social enterprise that nurtures the Caribbean’s stories and culture by empowering young people to write and speak about their experiences, concerns, and their hope […]
Perspective the Entertainer
Perspective the Entertainer is a professional illusionist. He has been doing magic since he was nine years old. Perspective performs at birthday parties, functions, executive meetings, corporate events and specializes in close up magic; often doing disappearing acts, appearing acts, and card performances.
Deborah Jean-Baptiste-Samuel
Deborah Jean-Baptiste-Samuel is the founder and leader of The Oratory Foundation, where she trains children and teenagers to be fluent in oral expression, dramatic monologues, poetry in performance, public speaking, choral speaking, debating and other creative forms of the spoken word. For the past eighteen years her Oratory performances have captivated sold-out audiences at the […]
Lance Dowrich
Lance Dowrich won the 2016 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for the Caribbean with “Ethelbert and the Free Cheese”. His two books to date have been published by Notion Press of Chennai, India. These are: A Plethora of Dead Ends (July 2021) and Long Rope for Magga Goat (March 2026). His story from 2016 was part […]
Alianna Grant
Alianna Grant is a certified ECCE Facilitator and is the C.E.O & Creative Director of The Li Collection by CreAtiv-Li
Ricardo Bharath Hernandez
Ricardo Bharath Hernandez is chief of the Santa Rosa First People’s Community, a group formed in 1970 of more than 200 people who are descended from this island’s first inhabitants of Amerindian descent.
Kyle “Skeeto” Amos
Kyle “Skeeto” Amos is the founder of ONE MIC, San Fernando’s premier spoken word and performance open mic event.
Francis Lovell
Francis Lovell is a Minister in the Ministry of Education and MP for Moruga Tableland.
Michael Anthony
Michael Anthony is an eminent Caribbean author and historian from Mayaro. He has had over 30 titles published in the form of novels, short stories and travelogues, including The Year in San Fernando, which was assigned as an English Literature text book in the Trinidad and Tobago curriculum. In 1979 he was awarded the Hummingbird Gold Medal for […]
Aliyyah Eniath
Aliyyah Eniath was born in Trinidad and Tobago; her ancestors hailed from Uttar Pradesh, India. She’s a director at Safari Publications, a magazine publishing house, and founder/editor-in-chief of Belle Weddings (Caribbean) magazine. Her debut novel The Yard is published by Speaking Tiger Books in both paperback and ebook formats.
Sean Samad
Sean Samad is lecturer in Lusophone and Brazilian culture at UWI St. Augustine since 2013. Previous academic stints have seen him as Lecturer for Arts and Creative Enterprise Management Postgraduate diploma, UWI St. Augustine, Guest Lecturer at the Institute of International Relations, UWI St. Augustine and in Intercultural Communication at Linnaeus University in Sweden. His passion […]
Nickolai Salcedo
Nickolai Salcedo is an actor, singer/songwriter, musician and visual artist. Frontman for the band Gyazette that he has spearheaded for 8 years, Nickolai has also been seen in a wide variety of theatre roles, including his critically acclaimed performance of King Oberon/Duke Theseus at the Trinidad Theatre Workshop’s 2013 production of A Midsummernight’s Dream. He played […]
David Furlonge
David Furlonge is the Head Cricket Coach at the Queen’s Park Cricket Club (QPCC), since 2010. During this period they have won 11 out of 18 titles, placing second in 5. He has coached at QPCC since 1995. He is the holder of a Level 3 Australian Coaching Certificate. He captained the T & T under […]
Sharon Jorcil-James
Sharon Jorcil-James is experienced in the local book industry. She was the Purchaser at a leading bookstore for 25 years, and is now Education Manager at Nigel R. Khan Bookseller. She is currently writing a book of short stories and poems and does storytelling in homes for underprivileged children.
Elisha Efua Bartels
elisha efua bartels is a writer, performer, teacher, director and stage-manager, and a founding member of Metamorphosis Dance Company. She spent time in Washington D.C. acquiring her degree in the Performing Arts, performing and stage-managing with companies from Bowen Macaulay Dance to the Washington Shakespeare Company and Folger Shakespeare Library, and freelancing as an associate […]
Vanda Radzik
Guyanese Vanda Radzik is a longtime social activist and cultural organiser, and co-editor of the literary journal Kyk-over-al.
Carolina Arrieta Castillo
Carolina Arrieta Castillo is Visiting Lecturer in Spanish at the UWI, St. Augustine. She is also a doctoral candidate in Applied Linguistics at the University of Salamanca, Spain. She completed her undergraduate studies in Spanish Language and Literature at the University of Granada in 2009. She holds MA’s in both teaching Spanish as a Second Language (University of […]
Nell Leyshon
Nell Leyshon is a British novelist and playwright and is currently Visiting Fellow at the University of Southampton. She is the author of four novels: Black Dirt (2004), shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Prize (Eurasia Region, Best First Book) and longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction; Devotion (2008); The Colour of Milk (2012), which won the Libro del Ano […]
Merissa Aguilleira
Merissa Aguilleira, Trinidadian right-handed batsman, plays for the West Indies women’s cricket team and is a former captain.
Marina Salandy-Brown
Marina Salandy-Brown, Bocas Lit Fest founder and President, is a T&T Newsday columnist. Her writing has appeared in international journals and magazines and the New Daughters of Africa anthology (2019).
Andrew Fitt
Andrew Fitt is an artist whose account of his life with cerebral palsy, Aching to Be, was published in 2015. He has been exhibiting in Trinidad since 2000, with five one-man shows and a group exhibition. He also exhibited ten pieces of work at the Art Fusion Gallery in Miami, which was part of Art Basel 2012.
Kwame Ryan
Kwame Ryan is a Canadian-Trinidadian conductor, currently teaching at UTT’s National Academy of Performing Arts.
Che Lovelace
Based in Port of Spain, Trinidad, Che Lovelace’s art originates primarily from his experience of living and working in Trinidad and Tobago. His paintings are rendered in a vivid assortment of acrylic and dry pigment on combined board panels. They are strongly rooted in depicting the dense, highly charged layers of the Trinidadian landscape which he […]
Ararimeh Aiyejina
Ararimeh Aiyejina is a Trinidadian writer, featured in the anthology New Worlds, Old Ways: Speculative Tales from the Caribbean.
Wendell Manwarren
Wendell Manwarren is an actor, rapso artiste, music producer, masman, and Carnival bandleader whose theatrical productions have consistently won awards both locally and internationally.
Michael Cherrie
Michael Cherrie, actor, drama coach and UTT lecturer won the 1994 award for best supporting actor in Walcott’s Joker of Seville. His work has taken him to the USA, UK, Canada and the Caribbean.
Anton Nimblett
Anton Nimblett, a Trinidadian who lives and writes in Brooklyn, is the author of the short story collections Sections of an Orange and Now/After. His fiction and poetry appear in several literary journals and in the anthologies Our Caribbean, War Diaries and The Peepal Tree Book of Contemporary Caribbean Short Stories. Anton has presented work widely in the US […]
Elizabeth Solomon
Elizabeth Solomon is CARICOM’s Assistant Secretary-General, Foreign and Community Relations. A citizen of Trinidad and Tobago, she has more than thirty years of legal, communications, and foreign service experience, at both regional and international levels. She has served in various senior-level capacities in the United Nations system, covering complex conflict recovery, governance and foreign relations […]
Maria Nunes
Maria Nunes is a Trinidad and Tobago photographer and producer who works in the field of cultural heritage, specializing in imagery of carnival-based traditions and the work of performing artists. Her book In a World of Their Own: Carnival Dreamers and Makers was published by Robert and Christopher Publishers in 2018.