Julian Rogers
Julian Rogers, MBE, is a veteran broadcast journalist and the CEO of Caribbean New Media Group (CNMG).
Kizzy Ruiz
Kizzy Ruiz, Trinidadian performer and calypsonian, is a past winner of the National Calypso Queen Competition and has been a National Calypso Monarch finalist multiple times. She works as a communication specialist and a broadcaster.
Lynette Seebaran-Suite
Lynette Seebaran-Suite, chairman of the Trinidad and Tobago Equal Opportunity Commission (EOC), is a litigator with over 35 years experience. She has been an influential advocate for the rights of women and girls, and is an avid supporter for legal reforms to protect against discrimination.
Muhammad Muwakil
Muhammad Muwakil is a Trinidadian poet and musician. He is a founding member of the band Freetown Collective.
Lou Lyons
Lou Lyons is a founding member of the band Freetown Collective. He is a musical innovator, adept guitarist and a producer.
Nazma Muller
Nazma Muller is a journalist and writer from Trinidad and Tobago. She is the media liaison and education officer for C420, a legally incorporated cannabis law reform NGO and has been advocating for marijuana legalisation across the region for the last 10 years. In 2015, she formed a political party, the Caribbean Collective for Justice, […]
Danielle Fraser
Danielle Fraser has been the Library Conservator and Head of the Preservation and Conservation (PAC) Laboratory at the Heritage Library Division, NALIS since 2009. She was a Book Conservation Fellow of the Library of Congress in 2008.
Paula Williams Madison
Paula Williams Madison is Chairman and CEO of Madison Media Management LLC, a Los Angeles-based media consultancy company with global reach. Madison was named one of the “75 Most Powerful African Americans in Corporate America” by Black Enterprise magazine in 2005 and included in the Hollywood Reporter’s “Power 100.” Her book Finding Samuel Lowe recounts […]
Portia Subran
Portia Subran is a Trinidadian artist and writer. She is the winner of the 2019 Cecile de Jongh Literary Prize from The Caribbean Writer, and the 2016 Small Axe Literary Short Story Competition. She was a finalist for the 2022 BCLF Short Fiction Story Contest, and longlisted for the 2019 Johnson and Amoy Achong Caribbean […]
Attillah Springer
Attillah Springer is a Trinidad born writer and jouvayist. She writes on culture and memory and has presented papers and written commissioned work on traditional mas, social justice and African spirituality in England, Brazil, Nigeria and Haiti. She is a Director of Idakeda Group, a collective of women in her family creating cultural interventions for […]
Gillian Slovo
Gillian Slovo is a South African writer, author of thirteen novels and a family memoir. Her novel Red Dust won the RFI Temoin du Monde prize and was made into a feature film, and Ice Road was shortlisted for the Orange Prize. Her newest novel is Ten Days.
Gillian Royes
Gillian Royes is the creator of the Shad series, a series of detective novels that take place on the North Coast of Jamaica. The most recent, The Rhythm of the August Rain, was published in July 2015. She currently lives in Atlanta and on the island of St. Croix, where she lectures at the University […]
Jacob Ross
Jacob Ross is the UK-based Grenadian author of the critically acclaimed works Tell No-One About This, Pynter Bender, Song for Simone, A Way to Catch the Dust. His crime fiction novel, The Bone Readers (Peepal Tree Press) won the inaugural Jhalak Prize in 2017. His latest book is Black Rain Falling (Hachette UK, 2020) was […]
Gordon Rohlehr
Gordon Rohlehr, Guyana-born literary scholar long based in Trinidad, is Emeritus Professor at UWI, St. Augustine. His books include Calypso and Society in Pre-Independence Trinidad (1990), My Strangled City and Other Essays (1992), The Shape of That Hurt and Other Essays (1992), and A Scuffling of Islands: Essays on Calypso (2004), Perfected Fables Now: A […]
Gemma Robinson
Gemma Robinson is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Stirling. She edited Martin Carter’s University of Hunger: Collected Poems and Selected Prose. Her many other publications include articles on Guyanese writers on the radio, Martin Carter, Wilson Harris, teaching “the Americas,” Caribbean manuscripts, and Caribbean protest writing.
Rowan Ricardo Phillips
Rowan Ricardo Phillips is recipient of a 2015 Guggenhiem Fellowship. He is the author of Heaven, which was longlisted for the 2015 National Book Award, and The Ground: Poems, for which he received a 2013 Whiting Writers’ Award, the 2013 PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award, and the 2013 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award for Poetry.
Polly Pattullo
Polly Pattullo, a British former journalist, is the co-founder of Papillote Press, a small publishing house based in Dominica and in London.
Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert
Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert is Professor of Caribbean culture and literature at Vassar College. Her books include Phyllis Shand Allfrey: A Caribbean Life; Jamaica Kincaid: A Critical Companion; Creole Religions of the Caribbean; Literatures of the Caribbean; and the forthcoming Extinctions: The Ecological Cost of Colonization in the Caribbean. She co-edits Repeating Islands, a blog on Caribbean […]
Angelique V. Nixon
Angelique Nixon is Senior Lecturer at the Institute for Gender and Development Studies, UWI, St. Augustine. Her scholarly book Resisting Paradise: Tourism, Diaspora, and Sexuality in Caribbean Culture (University Press of Mississippi, 2015) won the Caribbean Studies Association 2016 Barbara T. Christian Award. She is author of Saltwater Healing – A Myth Memoir and Poems […]
Vivek Narayanan
Vivek Narayanan was born in India and raised in Zambia. His poetry collections include Universal Beach (Harbour Line Press, 2006/In Girum Books, 2011) and Life and Times of Mr S (HarperCollins India, 2012). His honours include a fellowship from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, Harvard University. He was a 2015–16 Cullman Fellow at the New York Public […]
Deryck Murray
Deryck Murray is President of the Queen’s Park Cricket Club and former wicketkeeper for the West Indies cricket team, 1963–1980. His 1963 record for the most dismissals by a West Indies wicketkeeper in a Test series is unbroken.
Fazeer Mohammed
Fazeer Mohammed is a Trinidadian talk show host and cricket commentator.
Pauline Melville
Master of Chaos (Sandstone Press, 2021) is the latest short story collection from this acclaimed Guyanese/British writer whose work has won numerous literary awards, including the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Whitbread Prize, and the Guyana Prize for Literature. Her work has been translated into ten languages.
Karen McCarthy Woolf
Karen McCarthy Woolf was born in London to an English mother and a Jamaican father. She is the editor of three literary anthologies, most recently Ten: The New Wave. Her poetry collection An Aviary of Small Birds was shortlisted for the 2015 Forward Prize’s Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection.
Hannah Lowe
Hannah Lowe’s first poetry collection Chick was shortlisted for the Forward, Aldeburgh, and Seamus Heaney Best First Collection Prizes. Her family memoir Long Time, No See (Periscope 2015) featured as Radio 4’s Book of the Week. In 2014 she was named one of 20 “Next Generation” Poets. Her latest book of poems, Chan, was published […]
John Robert Lee
John Robert Lee is a critically acclaimed St. Lucian writer who has published several collections of poetry, including elemental (2008), Collected Poems 1975-2015 (2017), and Pierrot (2020). His poetry appears in numerous magazines and anthologies, including the Penguin Book of Caribbean Verse. His reviews and columns appear widely, and he produced and presented radio and […]
Paul Keens-Douglas
Paul Keens-Douglas is an actor, author, and storyteller with a wide and varied background in Theatre and the Creative Arts. A leading exponent of Caribbean oral traditions, he is founder/producer of the annual Tim Tim Storytelling Show and the Carnival Talk Tent. He holds the Humming Bird Silver medal for contributions to Culture, the Zora […]
Barbara Jenkins
The memoir, The Stranger Who Was Myself (Peepal Tree Press/2022), is the Trinidadian author’s latest book. Prizes for her short stories include The Commonwealth Short Story Prize (Caribbean Region), The Wasafiri New Writing Prize, The Canute Brodhurst Prize, The Small Axe Short Story Competition and The Hollick-Arvon Fiction Prize. Sic Transit Wagon, her debut collection […]
Tony Hall
Tony Hall is an award-winning Trinidadian playwright, screenwriter, actor and director. His play Jean and Dinah (1994) is a critically acclaimed work in West Indian theatre.
Debbie Goodman
Debbie Goodman is Manager, Corporate Communications at the National Library and Information System Authority (NALIS), Trinidad and Tobago.