Celeste Mohammed
Author
Celeste Mohammed is a Trinidadian lawyer-turned-writer. Her debut novel-in-stories Pleasantview (Jacaranda, 2021) won the 2022 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, the 2022 CLMP Firecracker Award for Fiction and was a finalist for the UK Society of Authors McKitterick Prize, and her debut non-fiction book A Different Energy: Women in Caribbean Oil was published in 2023. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Lesley University, Cambridge, Massachusetts and she received a 2018 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers.
Life Writing
New biographies by Vaneisa Baksh (Son of Grace) and Celeste Mohammed (A Different Energy) tackle real-life stories about breaking through barriers of race, class, and gender. They discuss their books with Franka Philip.New biographies by Vaneisa Baksh (Son of Grace) and Celeste Mohammed (A Different Energy) tackle real-life stories about breaking through barriers of race, class, and gender. They discuss their books with Franka Philip.