H. Nigel Thomas immigrated to Canada from St Vincent and the Grenadines in 1968. He obtained a BA and an MA from Concordia University, a Diploma in Education from McGill University, and a PhD from Université de Montreal. He is the author of dozens of essays, six novels, three collections of short fiction, two collections of poems, and two academic books. His novels Spirits in the Dark (1993) and No Safeguards (2015) were shortlisted for the Hugh MacLennan Fiction Award. He is the founder and English-language coordinator of Lectures Logos Readings and the editor of Kola Magazine. He is the recipient of many awards; those since 2020 are: Laureate, Black History Month—Quebec (2024), the Canada Council for the Arts John Molson Prize for the Arts (2022), Quebec Writers’ Federation Judy Mappin Community Award (2021), and the Black Theatre Workshop’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Achievement Award (2020).