Tracy Assing
Tracy Assing is a writer, editor and filmmaker. Her 2010 film The Amerindians explored Assing’s own identity, the indigenous history of the islands and the political structure of the Santa Rosa Carib Community (now the First People’s Community).
Sabrina Ramnanan
Sabrina Ramnanan was born in Toronto to Trinidadian parents. Her debut novel Nothing Like Love (2015) was released to rave reviews and has hit bestseller lists in Canada. She is a graduate of the University of Toronto’s School of Continuing Education Creative Writing Program and the recipient of the 2012 Marina Nemat award. Her work has […]
Satnarine Balkaransingh
Satnarine Balkaransingh, PhD, is an economist, playwright, and Kathak Classical dancer and choreographer with the Nrityanjali Theatre. His new book Kunuwaton celebrates the First Peoples’ influences in Trinidad and Tobago’s cuisine.
Arielle John
Determined to celebrate the West Indian now, while designing our shared survival of the future, Arielle John approaches poetry and theatre performance as medicine for Atlantic peoples, their resilient cultures, and the land (and sea) they occupy. The millennial’s devotion to community-building work centres on transformative justice, re-indigenized living and the healing arts as she […]
Brendon O’Brien
Brendon O’Brien is an activist, writer, director and performer who’s been doing Spoken Word for the past 7 years. Brendon was the 2014 Verses Bocas Poetry Slam 2nd Place winner, and one of the featured poets of Trinidad and Tobago Radio Network’s ‘Free Speech Project’ from 2012-2014. He is the Artistic Director of the.art.IS Performing […]
Ariana Herbert
Ariana Herbert is a spoken word poet and writer. She believes in the magic of storytelling and upholds the exploration of narratives concerning empathy, women and children. Ariana regularly enjoys no less than three cups of tea a day, daily doses of laughter and dancing, and is on a mission to be kind.
Judy Raymond
Judy Raymond, writer, journalist and editor, is a former editor in chief of the T&T Newsday and Trinidad Guardian. Her latest book is the biography Beryl McBurnie (UWI Press, 2018). Her short story “The Old Monsters” was shortlisted for the 2023 Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival Elizabeth Nunez Award for Writers in the Caribbean.
Angelo Bissessarsingh
Angelo Bissessarsingh is a historian from Siparia, Trinidad. He is the founder of the Virtual Museum of Trinidad and Tobago heritage resource, and writes a column titled “Back in Time” for the Trinidad Guardian. His new book is A Walk Back in Times: Snapshots of the History of Trinidad and Tobago.
Darin Gibson
Darin Gibson is a freelance writer and visual artist. He is currently completing an MFA in Creative Writing.
Che Rodriguez
Che Rodriguez is an accomplished Caribbean Producer/Director/Actor with a forty year span of performance, experience and training in mass media and theatre production. His body of work encompasses roles he created for film and stage and some twenty-one (21) films/documentaries that he wrote, produced and directed for national, regional and international audiences.
Brandon O’Brien
Brandon O’Brien is a writer, performance poet, and teaching artist from Trinidad and Tobago. His work has been shortlisted for the 2014 Alice Yard Prize for Art Writing, the 2014 and 2015 Small Axe Literary Competitions, and the 2020 Ignyte Award for Best in Speculative Poetry, and is published in Uncanny Magazine, Fireside Magazine, Strange […]
Idrees Saleem
Idrees Saleem is the VERSES Bocas Poetry Slam 2014 champion and also a founding member of DMAD Company, a drama company geared toward stimulating social change.
Stephen Narain
Stephen Narain is a graduate of the MFA programme at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and is at work on his first novel.
Jaime Lee Loy
Jaime Lee Loy is a contemporary artist and writer from Trinidad. Her literary fiction has been published by the St Petersburg Review, Akashic Books, NY, and Tongues of the Ocean’s Six-Word Stories. Her poetry appeared in Small Axe and was shortlisted for a prize. Her art appears on several International and local academic publications.
Eric Maitrejean
Eric Maitrejean is Lecturer in French and Conference Interpreting at the University of the West Indies. He translated into French Pantomime by Derek Walcott and short stories by Olive Senior and Shani Moottoo among others. He established at the UWI the Caribbean Interpreting and Translation Bureau (CITB) which provides professional language services to T&T and beyond.
Danielle Gianetti
Danielle Gianetti is a retired scholar/advertising executive/freelance writer. She is the joint editor of “The Flowering Rock”, collected poems of Eric Roach.
Ayanna Lloyd Banwo
Ayanna Lloyd Banwo is the author of the highly acclaimed novel When We Were Birds (Hamish Hamilton), winner of the 2023 OCM Bocas Prize for Fiction, and shortlisted for the overall prize. It was previously named one of the best debut novels of 2022 by the UK Observer. She is from Trinidad and Tobago and […]
Mark Raymond
Mark Raymond is an architect and educator. He worked on projects throughout Europe before returning to Trinidad in 1993. He assisted the architect Colin Laird on the design of the National Library and the Brian Lara Promenade whilst establishing his own practice. Mark has completed a wide range of architectural urban planning and design projects in Trinidad, Tobago […]
Dara Wilkinson-Bobb
Dara Wilkinson-Bobb was born in Sangre Grande and grew up in Tunapuna, Trinidad and Tobago. She teaches part-time as an Assistant Lecturer in the Writing Centre at the University of West Indies, St. Augustine Campus, and full-time at a girls’ high school. Dara has had stories published by Caribbean literary magazines and a children’s reader […]
June Aming
June Aming is a fiction writer who resides in Trinidad and Tobago. Her short stories have been included in several anthologies, and the story “Carnival Baby” was shortlisted for Small Axe competition 2014. She has previously shared her work at Carifesta X and at the Miami Book Fair 2013, 2014 and 2015. She was a […]
Marlon James
Marlon James was born in Jamaica in 1970. His most recent novel, Black Leopard, Red Wolf, is the first novel in James’s Dark Star trilogy. His previous novel, A Brief History of Seven Killings, was the winner of the 2015 Man Booker Prize, The American Book Award, and The Anisfield-Wolf Book Prize for fiction. He […]
Glenda-Rose Nassoma Layne
Glenda-Rose Nassoma Layne is a professional storyteller and has developed a programme to interpret art through dance and poetry. In 2006 she was a Gold Medalist in the Acting World Championship of the Performing Arts, Hollywood, California and again in 2007 she won two Gold Medals, one Bronze and one industry award for Acting & Spokesmodel in […]
Basdeo Panday
Basdeo Panday was the fifth Prime Minster of Trinidad and Tobago from 1995 to 2001, and has served as Leader of the Opposition from 1976–1977, 1978–1986, 1989–1995, 2001–2006 and 2007–2010.
Hazel McShine
Hazel McShine is a Trinidadian writer, who after completing a career as a Marine Biologist, has gone on to pursue a career in writing, which was her childhood dream. She is a member of the Writers Union of Trinidad and Tobago. Her short story “The Wall” was shortlisted for the 2014 Small Axe Literary Competition
Jenny Green
Jenny Green was born at Belle Vue in Shrewsbury, 1949. She went to School at The Priory and then went on to read English at Liverpool University. She trained as a Teacher at The Institute of Education, University of London. After teaching in London Comprehensives she and her partner, Lawrence Scott, from Trinidad went to […]
Vladimir Lucien
Vladimir Lucien is a writer from St. Lucia. He is the author of Sounding Ground, published by Peepal Tree Press, which won the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature in 2015. Lucien is also the co-editor of the anthology Sent Lisi: Poems and Art of St. Lucia.
Michael Cozier
Michael Cozier, is the author of Putting Up a Resistance!, shortlisted for the 2015 Burt Award for Caribbean Literature. Set at the end of the colonial era, this Young Adult novel explores the relationship of a Trinidadian boy of East Indian descent and a Trinidadian girl of African descent living in the system of divide and rule that prevails […]
Treldon Layne
Treldon Layne is a motivational speaker, author, poet, sole composer of wise sayings, and is the CEO of Treldon’s Greetings and The Treldon Layne Foundation. To date he has published two works of poetry entitled They Stole It, I Must Replace It and Rise Up and Bolt Forward.
Imam Baksh
Imam Baksh is a writer from Guyana. His manuscript Children of the Spider won first place in the 2015 CODE Burt Award for Caribbean Young Adult Literature, published in 2016 by Blue Banyan Books. His manuscript The Dark of the Sea is a 2018 CODE Burt Award finalist.
Diana McCaulay
Diana McCaulay is a Jamaican environmental activist and writer, a lifelong resident of the capital city of Kingston. Her forthcoming novel, A House for Miss Pauline, was published by Dialogue Books in the UK and Algonquin Books in the USA in February 2025. She has already written five novels: DOG-HEART (Peepal Tree Press ) HURACAN […]