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Vaughn T. Stanford
Vaughn T. Stanford teaches mathematics at a Trinidad secondary school. He has written and produced plays and short films which include Conflicted, performed at Little Carib Theatre in conjunction with his students, and the award-winning Lianna’s Story about a teenage drug addict for which his students won the Tambi trophy. With the assistance of the Canadian […]
Vanessa Salazar
Vanessa Salazar is a Trinidadian young adult author. Her first novel, Selima and the Merfolk, begins a three-book series. She is currently working on the second book.
Frank Wynne
Frank Wynne is a literary translator from French and Spanish. His work has earned him won three major prizes for his translations from the French, including the 2002 IMPAC Prize (for Atomised by Michel Houellebecq), and the 2005 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and 2008 Scott Moncrieff Prize. He has translated a number of Spanish and Latin American […]
Michael Kelleher
Michael Kelleher is the director of the Windham-Campbell Literature Prizes at Yale University and former Artistic and Associate Director of Just Buffalo Literary Center in Buffalo, New York. His published collections of poetry include Visible Instruments (Chax, 2017), Museum Hours (BlazeVOX, 2016), Human Scale (BlazeVOX, 2007), and To Be Sung (BlazeVOX, 2004).
Aonghas MacNeacail
Aonghas MacNeacail is a native Gael from the Isle of Skye. Award-winning poet and songwriter in Gaelic, English and Scots. Poetry has taken him as far East as Japan, and West to Seattle, the UN Building in New York, the Capitol in Rome, and many points between.
Gerda Stevenson
Gerda Stevenson is an award-winning actor, writer, director and singer-songwriter. She has acted in original plays and dramatisations of classic Scottish novels for BBC Radio 4. Her publications include the stage play Federer Versus Murray, published in Salmagundi; the poetry collection If This Were Real, published by Smokestack Books, 2013; stage play Skeleton Wumman, toured in UK, 2014; CD of her […]
John O. Stewart
John O. Stewart is a prize-winning Trinidadian novelist and anthropologist. His titles include Last Cool Days; Curving Road; Drinkers, Drummers and Decent Folk; and Looking for Josephine. His work in narrative ethnography includes Project Colorful Skin (co-authored), and Kungo Nights—a collective memory of village Trinidad (in progress). Professor Emeritus, (UC Davis), he lives and works […]
Kelly Baker Josephs
Kelly Baker Josephs is Professor of English at the University of Miami. She is the author of Disturbers of the Peace: Representations of Insanity in Anglophone Caribbean LitÂerature (2013) and co-editor of The Digital Black Atlantic (2021). She is currently Director of the Caribbean Digital Scholarship summer institute, co-organiser of The Caribbean Digital annual conference, […]
Fred D’Aguiar
 British-Guyanese author of twelve books, including novels, poems and plays. Year of Plagues: A Memoir of 2020 is his latest book, his first non-fiction work and was named Book of the Year in 2021 by the New Statesman and The Times Literary Supplement (TLS). His acclaimed first novel The Longest Memory (1994) won the Whitbread […]
Andre Bagoo
Andre Bagoo is a writer, poet, and essayist. His books include the essay collection The Undiscovered Country (Peepal Tree Press, 2020), winner of the 2021 OCM Bocas Prize for Non-Fiction, as well as five poetry collections, most recently Midnight Bestiaries (Broken Sleep Books, 2024). His fiction debut, The Dreaming, was published by Peepal Tree in […]
Mark Lyndersay
Mark Lyndersay is a writer, editor and photographer based in Trinidad and Tobago. He is the editor of TechNewsTT.com, an online news publication covering technology developments in Trinidad and Tobago founded in 2014 and writes BitDepth, a weekly column which has explored personal technology continuously over the last 26 years. He is the editor of the […]
Black Sage
Black Sage aka Philip Murray is a calypsonian and renowned master of Extempo singing, and four-time national Extempo champion.
Naomi Jackson
Naomi Jackson was born and raised in Brooklyn by West Indian parents. She studied fiction at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she was awarded the Maytag Fellowship for Excellence in Fiction to complete her first novel, The Star Side of Bird Hill. Jackson traveled to South Africa on a Fulbright scholarship, where she received an […]
Ken Ramchand
Ken Ramchand, distinguished literary critic, is the author of the seminal study The West Indian Novel and Its Background. He is Professor Emeritus of West Indian literature at the University of West Indies and a former President of the University of Trinidad and Tobago. In 2014, he received the Bocas Henry Swanzy Award for his […]
Lynn Joseph
Lynn Joseph is a Trinidadian author of several books for children, including A Wave in Her Pocket, The Mermaid’s Twin Sister, An Island Christmas, Jump Up Time: A Carnival Story, and Coconut Kind of Day, and two Young Adult novels, The Color of My Words and Flowers in the Sky. She was selected as Bermuda’s […]
Lylah Persad
Lylah Persad, writer, director, actor, storyteller, is the Creative and Artistic Director of LP Entertainment Theatre. She is a preschool drama teacher and also hosts workshops for teens and adults in speech articulation and character development. Together with Penelope Spencer, she co-authored the collection Tales from the Forest.Â
Auntie Thea
Auntie Thea (Theodora Ulerie) is a writer and celebrated storyteller. She is the co-ordinator of Baku Productions and is the Founder/Creative Director of Culture House, a facility for developing cultural awareness among young people.
Thelma Perkins
Thelma Perkins, UK born with Trinidadian roots, retired to a life of writing and storytelling in Tobago. She writes and tells stories for children and adults. Her publications include: In Search of Mr McKenzie, The Women’s Press; a story for children, Wishing on a Wooden Spoon, Mantra Publishing and a novel, Roundabouts, Mango Publishing.
Natacha Jones
Natacha Jones has worked in the media industry for over thirty years and been in numerous stage productions and television dramas, hosting several television interviews Her work covers The Caribbean Agricultural Extension Project, MACO Caribbean Living. Natacha has  immersed herself in radio and television production focusing on human interest issues especially those related to women […]
Dara E Healy
Dara E Healy, storyteller and performer, is the founder of The Idakeda Group, dedicated to impacting the lives of vulnerable young people and communities through culture, heritage and the arts. Her work has taken her throughout the country, the region and internationally.
Verna Allette Wilkins
Verna Allette Wilkins, celebrated author of 30 books for young people, with her books featured on the BBC and on the Schools National Curriculum, is the founder of Tamarind Books. Awards include the British Book Industry Decibel Award for Multicultural Publishing and an Honorary Doctor of Letters.
Eintou Pearl Springer
Eintou Pearl Springer is a former Poet Laureate of Port of Spain. In her work with The Idakeda Group she explores social issues using traditional performance forms. Her publications include four collections of poetry for adults, three for children, and God Child, a collection of children’s stories.
Carol Mitchell
St. Kitts-Nevis born Carol Mitchell wears several hats in the literary world. Her debut novel for adults, What Start Bad a Mornin’, was published in September 2023 by Central Avenue Publishing, and her short story collection A Good Haunting is forthcoming in Fall 2026 with Akashic Books. She has also published 19 books for children, three with […]
Kevin Jared Hosein
Kevin Jared Hosein is the author, most recently, of Hungry Ghosts, fiction winner of the 2024 OCM Bocas Prize and the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction. It had also been longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize. He is a two-time winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, regionally in 2015 and overall in 2018. […]
Sufia Giza Amenwahsu
Sufia Giza Amenwahsu, Poet and Historian, is an Ancestrally Inspired Artist of Gullah-Geechee descent. Co-founder of the Riverside Renaissance Writers Group, in California, and an Alumni of Cave Canem South, Writers Workshop. She performs spoken word poetry to music. She’s recorded 2 cds and has published 3 chapbooks.
Summer Edward
Summer Edward is a Gingko Prize longlisted author who writes for children and adults. Her children’s book, The Wonder of the World Leaf (HarperCollins UK/Collins Big Cat), was published on April 1, 2021. She also works as a children’s fiction editor at Heinemann, a readers’ advisory specialist at EBSCOHost Novelist, and reviews Caribbean children’s and […]
Colin Bootman
Colin Bootman, Trinidad born, New York raised, received his BFA from The School of Visual Arts in New York. Author of Young Frederick Douglass, 1994, he has illustrated and published more than twenty-five books. Recipient of many awards, he now splits his time between Trinidad and the US.
Lisa Allen-Agostini
Lisa Allen-Agostini is a writer and editor from Trinidad and Tobago. Her books include the novella Death in the Dry River (1000Volt Press, 2024); 2022 Women’s Prize for Fiction shortlisted novel The Bread the Devil Knead (Myriad, 2021), for which she also narrated the audiobook; the young adult novels Home Home (Papillote Press, 2018; Delacourte Press, 2020), […]
Senator the Hon. Raziah Ahmed
Senator the Hon. Raziah Ahmed is President of the Senate and a lover of Trinidad and Tobago’s folktales. She is a guest reader at the 2015 Children’s NGC Bocas Lit Fest.