Authors

Composer of several Trinidad and Tobago hit calypsos

Author of 'The Undiscovered Country'

Poet and songwriter in Gaelic, English and Scots

fiction and creative non-fiction writer

Professor Emerita of language and literature | Novelist

Leading British scientist, writer and broadcaster

Former Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago

Founding editor and publisher of Jacobin magazine

Calypsonian | Extempo lyricist

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

Professor Emerita of history | Author

Former Head of the History department at UWI, St. Augustine

US based author of many children’s books

Professor Emeritia of literary and cultural studies | Broadcaster | Columnist

Producer/Director/Actor

Eminent British literary agent and former publisher

Poet | Journalist | Human rights activist

Award-winning translator, writer and editor

Italian national and macro economist

Winner of the 2019 OCM Bocas Prize for Poetry

Editor of Bridges of Trinidad and Tobago

Co-editor of The Flowering Rock, collected poems by Eric Roach

Trinidadian writer featured in 'Who's Next?'

Trinidadian writer

Journalist | Librarian

Saint Lucian poet, playwright, writer and visual artist

Author of 'Daylight Come'

Critically-acclaimed Trinidadian writer

Poet and Professor Emeritus of English, UWI, Mona

Literary translator

Author of Children of Paradise

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

Actor, writer, director, singer-songwriter

Storyteller

Chilean poet

Trinidadian writer shortlisted for the 2014 Small Axe Literary Competition

VERSES Bocas poetry slam champion 2014

2018 CODE Burt Award for Young Adult Caribbean Literature Finalist

Artist and writer

Author of Somewhere Round the Corner

Founder and Managing Editor of Peepal Tree Press

Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at UWI

Professor of Ethnomusicology at the Music Department of the University of California, Berkeley

Novelist and anthropologist

Founder of publishing house Akashic Books based in New York City

Trinidadian writer shortlisted for Small Axe competition 2014

Author of 'Unravelling'

2017 OCM Bocas Prize Winner, Fiction

Editor of sx salon

Professor Emeritus of West Indian literature | Literary critic

Media entrepreneur

Winner of the 2018 Commonwealth Short Story Prize

Professor of English at Boston University

Author of Dangerous Freedom

Author of 'Home Home'

Mayor of Port of Spain 2010 - 2013

Author of children's and young adult literature

Writer, film producer and director

Vice Chief Judge of the 2016 OCM Bocas Prize.

Photographer and reporter

Architect and educator

Winner of the 2015 Man Booker Prize

2015 Burt Award for Caribbean Literature Finalist

Director of the Windham-Campbell Literature Prizes at Yale

Author of 'The Mermaid of Black Conch'

Jamaican-Canadian Speculative Fiction Writer

Author of The Star Side of Bird Hill

Trinidadian language teacher, researcher and writer

Prize-winning Jamaican Writer

British poet of Nigerian parentage

Trinidadian science-fiction writer

Caribbean writer | Political and cultural blogger

Literary agent with Frances Goldin Literary Agency in New York City

Creative and Critical Writer

Internationally renowned calypso and soca musician

Canadian poet and filmmaker of Trinidadian descent

Author of Moving Forward Sideways Like a Crab

Award-winning author

Poet |  critic | book blogger

English Professor and former lecturer at universities in Europe and Latin America

Trinidadian writer

Poet and children's writer

MD of the Lloyd Best Institute of the West Indies | Journalist

Author of Land of Love and Drowning

New York Times bestselling author

Motivational speaker, author and poet

Author of Young Adult Fiction

Author of Tales from Mysteria

Author of 'Sounding Ground', winner of the 2015 OCM Bocas Prize