Kalea Harris
Kalea Harris is a ten-year-old standard 4 student and visual artist. When she’s not studying, she enjoys reading, playing video games, sketching, and spending quality time with her loved ones. In 2024, Kalea had her very first Carnival experience when she played Dolly Ma La Niña with Amanda McIntyre’s “Dolly Mas: Coming of Age in […]
Lisa-Marie Foster
Lisa-Marie Foster is a passionate advocate for emotional intelligence and lifelong learning. With a background in psychology and a deep love for children, she believes in the transformative power of storytelling to connect, educate, and inspire.Through her work, Lisa-Marie aims to empower children to embrace their feelings and cultivate empathy for themselves and others, laying […]
Anslem Douglas
Anslem has always had stories to share with others, which has never waned. Over the years, this literary spark has blossomed, and he has written and recorded hundreds of songs, including the internationally known hit “Who Let The Dogs Out.” His love of writing has grown to include poetry, short stories, children’s books, fiction novels, […]
Mikayla Burton
Mikayla Burton is 10 years of age, and she is currently a standard 4 pupil at St. Patrick’s Newtown Girls’ R.C School. Mikayla is very passionate about writing and dance. She wrote her first book in standard 1, The Creative Mind this gave her the drive to continue developing her writing skills, she is currently […]
Nailah Blackman
Nailah Blackman, a Trinidad born artist has infused her own musical style into the Soca genre, evolving and re-inventing what soca means to the Trinbagonian people. In 2017, Nailah created an annual event entitled ‘Sokah Origins’ which has seen great success. Nailah writes, composes and plays multiple instruments and is especially known for acoustic performances. […]
Dr. Riann Bala
Dr. Riann Bala is a general practitioner by profession and sweetheart by nature. She’s currently enjoying life as a certified yoga instructor, general practitioner, and aunt. Dr. Riann Bala graduated from the University of the West Indies with her Bachelor of Medicine, and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS). She has her Yoga 200H certification and teaches […]
Dr. Ria Bala
Dr. Ria Bala is a family physician by profession and a yogi by heart, both call to her passion for healing. Her interests lie in therapeutic yoga, longevity, functional, and mind-body medicine where she focuses on health in all aspects of the individual: mind, body, and spirit. She graduated with honors at her Bachelors of […]
Misha Ali
Mishal, an 11-year-old homeschooled student, is the author of The Enchanting Folklore of Trinidad and Tobago. Passionate about math, astronomy, and drawing, she delves into her country’s rich stories and culture. For fun, Mishal enjoys hip-hop dancing and singing, showcasing her creative spirit in various ways.
David Codling
David Codling is the British Council Regional Arts Director, Americas. The interplay between the arts, politics, and social issues is a constant feature of his work.
Michael Logie
Michael Logie is an active writer and spoken word poet. He is the 2015 winner of the Courts Bocas Speak Out Secondary School Poetry Competition. He, along with three young poetic geniuses, represented Trinidad and Tobago this year at the Brave New Voices Poetry Festival in Washington DC. Back home, he does work with the […]
Keron Niles
Dr Keron Niles is a Lecturer at the Institute of International Relations at the University of the West Indies. His work focuses on problems that arise at the intersection of climate and energy policy. Dr Niles has been researching the link between industrial policy, international trade, and climate change in the Caribbean since 2008. Within […]
H. Nigel Thomas
H. Nigel Thomas immigrated to Canada from St Vincent and the Grenadines in 1968. He obtained a BA and an MA from Concordia University, a Diploma in Education from McGill University, and a PhD from Université de Montreal. He is the author of dozens of essays, six novels, three collections of short fiction, two collections […]
Dr. Jerome Teelucksingh
Jerome Teelucksingh is a lecturer in the Department of History at UWI, St Augustine. He focuses on the history of Afro-Caribbean activists and intellectuals, on Indo-Caribbean Diaspora in North America; on Pan-Africanism; on race, gender, and ethnic relations in the Caribbean; as well as labour history and the impact of Carnival and Calypso on Trinidad […]
Nancy Morejón
Nancy Morejón, Cuban poet, critic and essayist, is the most internationally successful and widely translated Cuban woman poet of the post-revolutionary period. She was awarded the Cuban “Premio de la crítica” (Critic’s Prize) for Piedra Pulida, and in 2001 won Cuba’s National Prize for Literature. She has lectured at universities throughout the country and has […]
Keir Roopnarine
Keir Roopnarine is a teacher, tutor, and lifelong advocate for women’s and children’s rights. Keir has worked with organisations such as the UNFPA, and the Hindu Women’s Organisation where she currently holds the post of Secretary. She is an advocate for sexual and reproductive health and rights, and against gender-based and domestic violence. Photo credit: Lumiere […]
Baz Dreisinger
Dr. Baz Dreisinger is: professor, journalist, justice worker, film and radio producer, cultural critic and prison-rights activist. A Professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York, she is the founder and Academic Director of the Prison-to-College Pipeline program, which she is now working to replicate internationally. Her book “Incarceration Nations: A Journey […]
Teresa White
Teresa White is former Executive Director & Chief Shared Services Officer at ANSA McAL. She is also on the board of the Family Planning Association of Trinidad & Tobago and a Council Member at the South Trinidad Chamber. In her past career, she occupied the position of Director at Guardian Media. She received an undergraduate […]
Viviana Prado-Núñez
Viviana Prado-Núñez was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico in a hospital with a 4.0 Google review rating and a view of the ocean. She has never seen Star Wars, eaten a grasshopper, or written a poem without the letter ‘e’, though she hopes to do all three of those things in the future. She is […]
Olufunmilayo Oyesanya-Ryan
Olufunmilayo Oyesanya-Ryan was born in Trinidad and Tobago to a Nigerian-American mother and a Trinidadian father. She is a secondary school student who enjoys family, volunteering, extracurricular activities, and reading avidly. Her favorite genre of books is psychological thrillers. She believes that extracurricular activities are of grave importance as they allow for a well-rounded student. […]
Jásher De Gannes
Jásher De Gannes is a 21 year old who is passionate about law and politics. In October 2022, she graduated with honours from the University of the West Indies with her Bachelors of Law. Jásher is the founder of a Non-Profit organization known as Divinely Commissioned International that encourages young people to remain steadfast in […]
Ayrïd Chandler
Ayrïd Chandler is a solopreneur and graphic designer based in Trinidad and Tobago. She runs her own design studio, Ayrïd by Design, which focuses primarily on branding design. Through her business, she produces a line of locally themed greeting cards called Trini Lyrics as well as teaches online design courses. Ayrïd is also a part-time […]
Urayoán Noel
Urayoán Noel is the author of eight books of poetry, most recently Transversal (University of Arizona Press), which was longlisted for the PEN Open Book Award and named a Book of the Year by the New York Public Library. As a translator of Latin American poetry, Noel has been a finalist for the National Translation […]
Amanda Hernández
Amanda Hernández is a poet, editor, and co-director of La Impresora in Puerto Rico. She is the author of La distancia es un lugar (La Impresora, 2020); Entre tanto amarillo (2016); El momento de las cosas (2017); and Estrategias atómicas (2018). In 2019, she edited Memoriza: poemas para aprenderse de memoria, a game of “memory” […]
P. Djèlí Clark
Phenderson Djéli Clark is the award winning and Hugo, Nebula, Sturgeon, and World Fantasy nominated author of the novellas Ring Shout, The Black God’s Drums and The Haunting of Tram Car 015. His stories have appeared in online venues such as Tor.com, Daily Science Fiction, Heroic Fantasy Quarterly, Apex, Lightspeed, Fireside Fiction, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and in print anthologies including, Griots, Hidden […]
Dr. Justin Ram
Dr. Justin Ram is an international economist with over twenty-five years of international experience in practice, research, development and management. He was previously Director of the Economics Department at the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) and a member of the Bank’s management team. He was responsible for the overall strategic direction and management of the Economics […]
Professor John Agard
Professor John Agard is one of the region’s leading scientists, and one of fifteen eminent scientists from a wide range of disciplines, expertise and backgrounds appointed by United Nations Secretary General António Guterres to draft the 2023 Global Sustainable Development Report. Professor Agard is the Director at the St Augustine Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship […]
Myriam J.A. Chancy
Myriam J. A. Chancy is the author most recently of the novel Village Weavers (Tin House), winner of the 2025 OCM BOcas Prize for Fiction. Her previous novel, What Storm, What Thunder, was named a “Best Book of 2021,” by NPR, Kirkus, Library Journal, the Boston Globe, Globe & Mail, shortlisted for the Caliba Golden […]
Gloriann Sacha Antonetty Lebrón
Gloriann Sacha Antonetty Lebrón is a Puerto Rican writer and educator. Her first poetry collection, Hebras (2015) received an honourable mention for the Gautier Benitez Award in 2014. She is the founding editor of the journal Étnica, the first online journal in Puerto Rico dedicated to people of African descent and diversity. She has published […]
Legna Rodríguez Iglesias
Legna Rodríguez Iglesias (Camagüey, Cuba, 1984) received the Premio Iberoamericano de Cuentos Julio Cortázar in 2011, and she was the recipient of the Casa de las Américas award in Theatre (2016) for the play Si esto es una tragedia yo soy una bicicleta. In 2016 she also received the Paz Prize, from The National Poetry […]
Amanda Alcántara
Amanda Alcántara is a writer, journalist and author of Chula (2019). She is the Digital Media Editor at Futuro Media Group. Her work centres on various themes including Caribbean culture, womanhood, borders and blackness. She has been published on Latino USA, Remezcla, Latino Voices and Black Voices on The Huffington Post, The Washington Post’s The Lily, […]