Angela Wachuka
Angela Wachuka is a Founder and Managing Trustee at Book Bunk, a firm driving the restoration of some of Nairobi’s most iconic public libraries. Book Bunk’s flagship project is Nairobi’s oldest public library; The McMillan Memorial Library, and two of its branches in Eastlands (Kaloleni Library and Eastlands Library). She is the former executive director […]
D. Alissa Trotz
Alissa Trotz is a Guyanese Professor of Caribbean Studies at New College and the Director of Women and Gender Studies at the University of Toronto. She is also affiliate faculty at the Dame Nita Barrow Institute of Gender and Development Studies at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados; and a member of […]
Vindhar Suraj
Vindhar Suraj loves to write. As a citizen of Trinidad and Tobago, he draws heavily on his island/Caribbean life for inspiration. His interest is in representing the Caribbean experience by drawing on techniques of magical realism to create familiar yet unique perspectives. Fantasy and magic are part of his world. He is working on his […]
Geetanjali Shree
Geetanjali Shree is the author of three novels and several story collections, and her work has been translated into English, French, German, Serbian and Korean. Tomb of Sand was the winner of the International Booker Prize in 2022. Shree was born in Mainpuri, India, in 1957. She has received and been shortlisted for a number […]
Roydon Salick
Roydon Salick is a retired senior lecturer in the department of liberal arts at the University of the West Indies, Trinidad. He is the author of The Novels of Samuel Selvon: A Critical Study and, most recently, Mayaro Gold: The Fiction of Michael Anthony (2023).
Christine Salandy
Christine Salandy’s book Three Ships Come Sailing Home: A Compelling Memoir of One’s Journey to Life’s Destiny guides readers through her journey from her birth country, Dominica, to the British colonies of St. Kitts, Nevis, and Anguilla, and ultimately to Trinidad and Tobago, her mother’s homeland.
Yansie Rolston
Facilitator/Trainer Yansie Rolston works in Europe, Africa, America and the Caribbean designing, implementing and evaluating actionable strategies on health equality and community cohesion and setting up culturally appropriate health and social care projects for marginalised communities. She is the editor of the intimate, empowering anthology Black and Menopausal.
Stuart W. Ramon-Fortuné
Trinidadian Stuart W. Ramon-Fortuné is the author of the historical novel From Ibadan to Hell Yard, published in 2023.
Kenneth 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 […]
Soraya Palmer
Soraya Palmer is the author of The Human Origins of Beatrice Porter and Other Essential Ghosts. She is a Flatbush-born-and-raised writer and licensed social worker who has worked to advocate and organize against gentrification, police brutality, and gender-based violence. Her novel was named one of Today’s “38 Best New Books to Read in 2023,” one […]
Irenosen Okojie
Irenosen Okojie is a Nigerian British author whose work pushes the boundaries of form, language, and ideas. Her novel Butterfly Fish and short story collections Speak Gigantular and Nudibranch have won and been nominated for multiple awards. Her journalism has been featured in The New York Times, The Observer, The Guardian and The Huffington Post. […]
Paula Obé Thomas
Paula Obé Thomas, poet and musician, is also the founder of Bamboo Talk Press. Her most recent book is Remembering her brown head-tie.
True Nicks
True Nicks calls herself “a creative coddiwomple from Trinidad and Tobago.” The Halfway Tree is her debut novel.
Paula Morgan
Professor Paula Morgan, a long-term member of The University of the West Indies faculty, is the former University Director of the Institute for Gender and Development Studies, former Head of the Department of Literary, Cultural and Communication Studies at St. Augustine campus, and a scholar of West Indian literature and culture.
Shehnaz Mohammed
Shehnaz Mohammed started her career as a travel agent and tour operator at the age of twenty at Haphiza’s Odyssey Travels Limited. She considers herself fortunate to join the likes of those who trained under her mother, Haphiza Mohammed, who she accredits to building her soft skills and social competencies. A Spanish teacher for the […]
Premee Mohamed
Premee Mohamed is a Nebula, World Fantasy, and Aurora award-winning Indo-Caribbean scientist and speculative fiction author based in Edmonton, Alberta. She has also been a finalist for the Hugo, Ignyte, Locus, British Fantasy, and Crawford awards. Currently, she is the Edmonton Public Library writer-in-residence and an Assistant Editor at the short fiction audio venue Escape […]
Nivedita Misra
Dr Nivedita Misra teaches at the University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad. She has published on aspects of Indo Caribbean culture and literature and is co-editor of Amazing Scenes, Seepersad Naipaul’s selected journalism.
Rhea Manley
Rhea Manley has been enjoying stories and writing poetry for the better part of her life. She studied English Literature in Portland, Oregon for four years and has subsequently returned to Jamaica to work in various fields and currently teaches English. She was shortlisted for the National Library of Jamaica’s Edward Baugh Prize for Poetry […]
Stephanie Koathes
Stephanie Koathes writes: “I’ve always loved books and writing stories, much to the consternation of my family who’ve had to listen to fragments of everything I’ve ever written. For the last few years, I’ve worked in advertising as a copywriter while creating stories in my spare time. I’ve always hesitated to call myself a ‘writer’ […]
Helen Johnson
Helen Johnson is an innovator and leader in the library and information technology field. She has been a library and information science professional for the past 40 years, many of which entailed integrating ICT into the delivery of library services. Currently, she serves as the Director Information Networks Division, NALIS. Her extensive portfolio also includes […]
Troy Hadeed
Well known as a yoga teacher, Troy Hadeed published his debut book My Name Is Love: We’re Not All That Different in 2023.
Jessica Gopaul
First-time author Jessica Gopaul’s debut book of poems is Annie.
Joel Frederick
Joel Frederick is an author from Trinidad and Tobago, has four published books of poetry. All of these books are written about life experiences, including love and related emotions.
Natalie Fiawoo
Natalie Fiawoo is a cultural producer, curator and project manager who specialises in telling stories of the African Diaspora. Working across theatre, literature, film and heritage she is producer for leading poetry organisation Apples and Snakes and the UK’s only African and diasporan literature festival, Africa Writes. Natalie also works regularly with organisations like Black […]
Claudius Fergus
Claudius Fergus is a retired Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at UWI’s St Augustine Campus, who specialises in the abolition of British colonial slavery and its transatlantic slave trade. His major work on the subject is Revolutionary Emancipation: Slavery and Abolitionism in the British West Indies (2013). His latest book, Against Toleration: Britain’s […]
Aimée Felone
Aimée Felone is Managing Director and Founder of Knights Of, winner of Children’s Publisher of the Year at the British Book Awards 2022. She founded and runs the multi award-winning inclusive publisher, and is focused on bringing underrepresented voices to the forefront of commercial children’s publishing. With a team led by women of colour, and […]
Marchelle Farrell
Marchelle Farrell is a therapist, writer and amateur gardener. Born in Trinidad and Tobago, she has spent the last twenty years attempting to become hardy in the UK. She has trained and worked as a consultant psychiatrist and psychotherapist. When not neglecting it for the care of her young children, or her work in the […]
Aaron Eastley
Aaron Eastley is Associate Professor of English at Brigham Young University in Utah, USA. He holds a PhD from the University of California at San Diego, and specializes in transnational literatures in English, British Modernism, and diaspora and globalization studies. He has published articles on both Seepersad Naipaul and V. S. Naipaul in the Journal […]
Bruno Dorigatti
Bruno Dorigatti is a journalist, editor and translator. He is the Editorial Manager of Brazilian publishing house DarkSide® Books, where he has worked since the publisher was founded in 2012. He has translated, among others, the graphic novels Raptor (2023), by Dave McKean, The Hunting Accident, by David L. Carlson and Landis Blair (2022), Home […]
Kayo Chingonyi
Kayo Chingonyi was born in Zambia in 1987, and moved to the UK at the age of six. He is a fellow of the Complete Works programme for diversity and quality in British Poetry and of The Civitella Ranieri Foundation. In 2012, he was awarded a Geoffrey Dearmer Prize by The Poetry Society and was […]