Philip Nanton, author of Canouan Suite and Other Pieces (2016), a work of literary non-fiction, Frontiers of the Caribbean (2017) and Island Voices from St. Christopher and the Barracudas (2014), is a performance artist and writer from St. Vincent and the Grenadines, living in Barbados. His most recent publication is Riff: The Shake Keane Story (2021).