Elton Johnson
Elton Johnson is a writer, lecturer, and development communication specialist in Jamaica. Currently, he works as Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Literatures in English at The University of the West Indies, Mona. He was the 2016 Emerging Global Leader’s Fellow from the US Embassy in Jamaica. His career has been dedicated to using development […]
Dreylan Johnson
Dreylan Johnson is a Guyanese creative who found writing long before she found herself. A Chevening Scholar, she graduated with an MA in Cultural and Creative Industries from the University of Sussex in 2021. She spent her early career in the newsroom, where she developed a love for long-form journalism and capturing the human dimensions […]
Catherine Lord
Born in Roseau, Dominica, Catherine Lord, Professor Emerita of Studio Art at the University of California, Irvine, is a writer, artist, and curator whose work addresses issues of queer utopias and colonialism. She is the author of The Summer of Her Baldness: A Cancer Improvisation (2004) and The Effect of Tropical Light on White Men […]
Denise deCaires Narain
Dr. Denise deCaires Narain is Emeritus Reader in Postcolonial Literatures at the University of Sussex. She taught courses on postcolonial, Caribbean and women’s writing and on postcolonial feminist discourses. She has published widely on Caribbean women’s writing, including two monographs, Contemporary Caribbean Women’s Poetry: Making Style and Writers and Their Work: Olive Senior, as well […]
Ved Valmiki
Aaron Valmiki Rampersadsingh, better known by his spiritual name: Ved, carries intimate knowledge and experience of the spiritual dimension of Yoga cultivated from his lifelong association with the living Master Sri Vasudeva, intense spiritual exploration, and service as a yoga teacher. He attended Presentation College San Fernando before pursuing his bachelor’s degree in Psychology in […]
Ayana K. S. L. John
Ayana Kalifa Sarafina Latifah John is from St. Barb’s Laventille, Trinidad and Tobago. Her passion for writing started at the tender age of eight when she began writing short stories, poems and songs. At the age of twelve she got the inspiration to write her very first book and two-part series, called Love & Drama. […]
3canal
3canal is a Trinidadian band and leading proponent of rapso, a musical style which combines elements of calypso, soca and rap. The group was formed in 1994 by Visual Artist Steve Ouditt and Performing Artists Wendell Manwarren and Roger Roberts. For the next 3 years they created and led their own Jouvay Band in the […]
Hamid Ghany
Hamid Ghany is Professor of Constitutional Affairs and Parliamentary Studies and Honorary Professor at the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES). He previously served as Head of the Department of Behavioural Sciences (1999-2003), Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences (2003-2012) and Director of the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social […]
Yomi Sode
Yomi Ṣode is an award-winning Nigerian British writer. He is a recipient of the 2019 Jerwood Compton Poetry Fellowship, shortlisted for The Brunel International African Poetry Prize 2021, and Arts Foundation Awards 2024. His acclaimed one-man show COAT toured nationally to sold-out audiences, including at the Brighton Festival, Roundhouse Camden and the Battersea Arts […]
Antonio Michael Downing
Antonio Michael Downing spends his time writing books, singing songs and trying to make his Grandma proud. The 2018 Taylor Prize named him one of Canada’s best emerging authors. His acclaimed memoir SAGA BOY was called by Giller winner Ian Williams “the triumph of Blackness everywhere…” STARS IN MY CROWN is his first children’s book. […]
Rhoda Reddock
Rhoda Reddock is Professor Emerita of Gender, Social Change and Development at The University of the West Indies (UWI), St. Augustine Campus in Trinidad and Tobago and former deputy principal. After completing her undergraduate studies at The University of the West Indies, Mona and St. Augustine campuses, she did her masters at the Institute for […]
Andrea Jacob
Andrea Jacob, a medical social worker, and educator, resides in Trinidad. Her early life was impacted by her Christian upbringing, resulting in her having a passion for truth and equality. Her life’s journey took a turn when she came into contact with the revolutionary ideologies of the late 1960s and 80s. This caused her to […]
Richard Charan
Richard Charan has had a 25-year career in journalism and is employed as the multimedia editor with Caribbean Communications Network, the parent company of the Express and TV6. Charan’s writing has earned him multiple awards, including the MATT/RBTT media award for excellence in journalism, and then a PAHO award for feature/investigative writing. Last year, Charan […]
Yesha Townsend
Yesha Townsend is a Bermudian writer and English lecturer at the Bermuda College. Her work has been published or featured in Bermudian, Caribbean and British spaces, notably, The Bermudian Magazine, The Bermuda Anthology of Memoir & Creative Non-Fiction, Poui: Cave Hill Journal of Creative Writing, The Wolverhampton Literary Festival 2021, MOKO: caribbean arts and letters, […]
Rinaldo Walcott
Rinaldo Walcott is Professor and the Carl V. Granger Chair in Africana and American Studies. He is also the Chair in the Department of Africana and American Studies at the University at Buffalo; Rinaldo’s research focuses on the cultural expression of Black life with an interest in the transnational, diasporic and the national crosscurrents of […]
Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Alexis Pauline Gumbs’s most recent book Survival is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde was named a Publisher’s Weekly top ten book of 2024. She is also the author of Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals, Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity, M Archive: After the End of the World, and Dub: […]
Christina Cooke
Named a “Writer to Watch” by CBC Books and Shondaland, Christina Cooke is the author of Broughtupsy – named a “Best Book of 2024” by Elle, Electric Literature, CBC Books, and Debutiful, in addition to being named a must-read title by over 30 outlets including Vogue, The Atlantic, Harper’s Bazaar, and Kobo. A MacDowell fellow […]
Peter Cavendish
Peter Cavendish was appointed European Union Ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago in 2021, and as of March 2025, he has been appointed Dean of the Diplomatic Corps. He has been working at EU institutions since 1995, when he joined DG ECHO Humanitarian Aid & Civil Protection as Head of Sector. Since then he has served […]
Brendon Alekseii
Brendon Alekseii is a Trinbagonian writer, director, performer, and teaching artist. He uses the performing arts as a tool for engendering compassion and examining ranges of Caribbeanness. As a spoken word poet, he has been a five-time finalist of the First Citizens National Poetry Slam (previously the Verses Bocas Poetry Slam). He also served as […]
Randy Ablack
Randy Ablack is a fifty-six-year-old Trinidadian writer. He started writing poetry as a teenager and later became interested in playwriting. He has done playwriting workshops with Raymond Ramcharitar and, most notably, “Festival Arts as Cultural Performance” with the late Professor Tony Hall. This resulted in the production of his short play The Same Ol’ Mas […]
Linzey Corridon
Linzey Corridon (he/him) is a writer, a Vanier Canada Scholar, and a PhD candidate in the Department of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University. His critical and creative research can be found in, among other venues, Canada and Beyond, Wasafiri, Sx Salon, Journal of West Indian Literature, and more. His first book project is […]
Otancia Noel
Otancia Noel is a writer from Trinidad and Tobago. She grew up between the south and the Jamaat Al Muslimeen compound. She has a degree in Mass Communication and an MFA in Creative Writing Prose Fiction. Her stories, articles, and scholarly articles have been published in various journals. She was longlisted for the Johnson and […]
Nicholas Boggs
Nicholas Boggs is a writer and independent scholar. He rediscovered and coedited a new edition of James Baldwin’s out-of-print collaboration with the French artist Yoran Cazac, Little Man, Little Man: A Story of Childhood (2018), and his writing has been anthologized in The Cambridge Companion to James Baldwin and James Baldwin Now. He is the […]
V. Ramsamooj Gosine
V. Ramsamooj Gosine was educated at Corinth Teachers’ College and UWI, St. Augustine . His works have been published in newspapers and magazines, The Caribbean Writer and BIM, and broadcast on the BBC. He has received awards from the National Cultural Council, The Hindu Women’s Organisation, and the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association. He is the author […]
Kavita Ganness
Kavita Ganness has a BA Degree in Communication Studies and Literatures in English (Double Major) and a Masters in Fine Arts in Creative Writing (Fiction) from the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine. She has published two books, Emerald Journey – A Collection of Poems and The Aloo-Pie Man and Other Stories. She is […]
Ryan Bachoo
Ryan Bachoo has been a multimedia journalist for the past 15 years, covering numerous topics including news and current affairs, politics, sport, and climate change. As a presenter, he has also hosted several programmes, including anchoring the primetime news and the morning show. In 2023, he copped the Caribbean Broadcasting Union’s Best Caribbean Documentary Award […]
Richard Lynch
Richard Lynch is a a policy and strategy consultant, with extensive experience in national, regional, and international security and development. In 2017, he retired from the Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force (at the rank of Major), having completed 22 years of distinguished service. He is also a former Director of International Affairs in the T&T […]
Kai Thomas
Kai Thomas is a writer, carpenter, and land steward. He is Afro-Canadian, born and raised in Ottawa, descended from Trinidad and the British Isles. In the Upper Country, his first novel, won the Atwood Gibson Writers Trust Award and was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Fiction Award, the Amazon Canada First Novel Award, and the […]
Justin Haynes
Justin Haynes was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, and later moved to Brooklyn, New York. Having earned his MFA from Notre Dame, he continued his graduate studies at Vanderbilt University. He has been awarded various fiction residencies and fellowships, including from the Fine Arts Work Center, the Vermont Studio Center, the Wisconsin […]
Berkley Wendell Semple
Berkley Wendell Semple was born in Guyana. He has published four collections of poetry: Lamplight Teller, which was awarded the 2004 Guyana Prize for Poetry; The Solo Flyer; The Central Station; and Flight and Other Poems, which won the 2023 Guyana Prize for Literature. He has also edited a book of student poems. His poetry […]