Randy Ablack is a fifty-six-year-old Trinidadian writer. He started writing poetry as a teenager and later became interested in playwriting. He has done playwriting workshops with Raymond Ramcharitar and, most notably, “Festival Arts as Cultural Performance” with the late Professor Tony Hall. This resulted in the production of his short play The Same Ol’ Mas by the Trinidad Theatre Workshop and the radio play The Serpents Mouth by NDATT. These plays address social concerns, namely Trinidad and Tobago’s 1990 attempted coup and police corruption. Ablack then successfully pursued a degree in Literature and Communications which resulted in him entering UWI’s Creative Writing MFA programme. Concurrent with his academic pursuits, he worked for twenty-eight years in the Pointe-à-Pierre refinery, which provided much material for his upcoming anthology about its demise, The Concrete Jungle Book. Ablack believes that the writing process is a search for meaning and an opportunity to examine your life.