Rayne Affonso graduated from the University of the West Indies, St Augustine with a BA Spanish and Literatures in English with First Class Honours. She works as a Spanish interpreter.Her poetry can be found in SPECTRUM: Poetry Celebrating Identity (2022) published by Renard Press and several journals. She is a 2023 Pushcart Prize nominee and was a finalist in the Short Fiction Story Contest for the BCLF Elizabeth Nunez Award for Writers in the Caribbean (2023).