Rosamond S. King

#bocas2026

Biography

Critical and creative writer and performer Rosamond S. King’s book Island Bodies: Transgressive Sexualities in the Caribbean Imagination was named “Best Book” by the Caribbean Studies Association. Her poetry publications include the forthcoming All the Rage and the Lambda Award-winning Rock | Salt | Stone.

King’s essays have appeared in LitHub, the Ms. blog, Sargasso, The Progressive, The Caribbean Review of Gender Studies, and elsewhere. She has performed at biennales, festivals, bookstores, and other venues around the world and in cyberspace. King is creative editor of sx salon and associate professor at Brooklyn College, part of the City University of New York.

www.rosamondSking.black

Years Attended

2015, 2015 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2017, 2017 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2017 Workshop Facilitator, 2020, 2020 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2021 Adult's Festival Participant, 2021 Featured Speaker, 2022 Adult’s Festival Participant

Rosamond S. King

2021 OCM Bocas Prize Judge, Author
Trinidad & Tobago
Events Featuring Rosamond S. King
2020
"The treachery in every poem": Celebrating the poetry of Colin Robinson
Festival Programme, Online Programme Event
Readings Event
Event Date:
Facebook Live
2017
Workshop: How to witness your own work
Festival Programme, Workshops Event
Workshop Event
Event Date:
1st Floor Seminar Room
2017
Poetry Forward: celebrating the vitality of contemporary Caribbean poetry
Festival Programme, Words Alive Event
Readings Event
Event Date:
Kaiso Blues Cafe
2017
Lit: On Fleek
Festival Programme, Words Alive Event
Open Mic Event
Event Date:
Euphoria Lounge
2015
Island Bodies
Big Ideas, Festival Programme Event
Discussion Event
Event Date:
1st Floor Seminar Room