Authors

Writer, musician, and academic

managing director of the Fondes Amandes Community Reafforestation Project

Author of The Yard

Educator and children’s author

Traditional Carnival performer, Black Indian mas

Author of 'The Undiscovered Country'

Author of Aching to Be

Writer | Artist | Teacher | Scholar | Activist | Poet

Author of Madinah Girl

Author of Sections of an Orange

Writer | Editorial consultant

Trinidadian writer

Spoken Word Artist

Writer | Cultural Researcher

Writer and activist

fiction and creative non-fiction writer

Award-winning author

Author of Brown Sugar and Spice

Calypsonian | Extempo lyricist

writer featured in New Worlds, Old Ways: Speculative Tales from the Caribbean

writer and performer

Professor Emerita of history | Author

Lecturer in Spanish at the UWI, St. Augustine

Writer

Trinidadian artist

Books editor for UK Guardian and Observer

Poet | Journalist | Human rights activist

Secretary of the Writers Union of Trinidad and Tobago

Midnight Robber

Brooklyn-based writer, editor, and composer

Editor of Bridges of Trinidad and Tobago

Library Conservator | Head of the Preservation and Conservation (PAC) Laboratory

2016 Burt Award winner

Traditional Carnival performer, Black Indian mas

British Council Regional Arts Director, Americas

Head Cricket Coach at the Queen’s Park Cricket Club

Manager, Corporate Communications, NALIS

Founder of the Oratory Foundation

President of the Queen’s Park Cricket Club

Editor of Hiroona

Poet, novelist, and essayist

Critically-acclaimed Trinidadian writer

Writer | Performer | Director

human rights activist

Author of 'Stick No Bills'

Author of Daisy Chain

Chair of the non-fiction judges for the 2018 OCM Bocas Prize

Talk show host and commentator

2016 Burt Award winner

Minister in the Ministry of Education

Deputy Festival Director, NGC Bocas Lit Fest | Nigerian prize-winning writer based in Trinidad

Jamaican author of The Angels' Share

Musician and President of the Hindu Prachaar Kendra

Editor of Martin Carter’s University of Hunger: Collected Poems and Selected Prose

Historian, writer, and founder of Paria Publishing

Author of The Shad detective series

South African writer

Professor Emeritus of West Indian Literature at UWI, St. Augustine

Writer featured in the anthology New Worlds, Old Ways: Speculative Tales from the Caribbean

Poet and author of Long Time, No See

English teacher and writer

Senior editor at Akashic Books

Author of 'Black Rain Falling'

Writer | Visual Artist

Editor

Founder and Managing Editor of Peepal Tree Press

Lecturer

Author of 'Pierrot'

Film director

Artist & cultural activist

Artist, author, playwright and actress

Author of Beryl McBurnie

veteran broadcast journalist

children's book publisher

Trinidadian writer shortlisted for Small Axe competition 2014

Pakistani author of six novels

Author of 'Unravelling'

Forward Prize nominated poet

Professor Emeritus of West Indian literature | Literary critic

music producer

Economist

Winner of the 2018 Commonwealth Short Story Prize

performer and calypsonian

Calypsonian

Canadian-Trinidadian conductor

Founder of ONE MIC

2016 Commonwealth Short Story Prize winner

Professor of Caribbean culture and literature at Vassar College

Chairman of the Trinidad and Tobago Equal Opportunity Commission (EOC)

Photographer | Producer

Founder and Director of the NGC Bocas Lit Fest

Vice Chief Judge of the 2016 OCM Bocas Prize.

Honorary Founding Director of the Music Literacy Trust  

Economist

Lecturer in the Department of Economics, UWI

Winner of the 2015 Man Booker Prize

Founder of Caribbean Books Foundation

Senior Counsel of Trinidad and Tobago

Book designer and co-editor of Robert & Christopher Publishers

Trinidadian batsman

Caribbean author and historian

Actor and drama coach

Professor of French, Social and Cultural Analysis, NYU

Film director

English teacher at the University of Trinidad and Tobago

Storyteller and Talk Tent star

Journalist and writer

British author of Memoir of A Dipper

actor, musician and visual artist

actress and comedienne

Prize-winning Jamaican Writer

Actor, author, and storyteller

Media consultant and author of Finding Samuel Lowe

Guyanese/British writer

Actress, Author

Co-founder of Papillote Press

Trinidadian artist and writer

Academic, writer, and critic

US author of Bastards of the Reagan Era

Caribbean writer | Political and cultural blogger

thespian

Chief of the Santa Rosa First People’s Community

chutney soca artiste

Poet

British born poet /artist

Lecturer in Lusophone and Brazilian Culture

Education Manager at Nigel R. Khan Booksellers Ltd.

Award-winning author

Poet |  critic | book blogger

Author of 'The Best Estimation in the World'

Writer

lyricist, performer, midnight robber

Poet and children's writer

Traditional Carnival performer, The Bookman

Author of Dreams Beyond the Shore

Writer of poetry and fiction

Playwright, screenwriter, actor and director

Writer | Editor | Filmmaker

Author of Mr. Big

Author of 'Skin Can Hold'

Education and Development Consultant

Guyanese cultural activist

Poet

actor and musician