Tobagonian-born writer-in-training Lynette Hazel is currently pursuing her MFA in Creative Writing at the UWI St Augustine Campus. The 2015 Faculty of Humanities and Education Award winner for Creative Writing (Prose and Poetry), she has much to contribute to the literature of Tobago and the wider nation and Caribbean.
Celeste Mohammed is a native of Trinidad and Tobago, in 2016, she graduated from Lesley University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, with an MFA in Creative Writing (Fiction). Her work has appeared in The New England Review, Litmag, Epiphany, The Rumpus, among other places. She is the recipient of a 2018 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers. She was also awarded the 2019 Virginia Woolf Award for Short Fiction, and the 2017 John D Gardner Memorial Prize for Fiction. Her debut novel Pleasantview (Ig Publishing) was published in 2021
Sharon Millar is a Trinidadian author and was the winner of the 2013 Commonwealth Short Story Prize and the 2012 Small Axe Short Fiction Award, her work has appeared in publications such as Granta, Small Axe, Susumba Book Bag, and WomanSpeak as well as the online Akashic Duppy Thursday series. In 2012 she was an AWP Intro Journals nominee for her short story The Dragonfly’s Tail. She is the author of The Whale House and other Stories (Peepal Tree Press) She holds an MFA (Creative Writing) from Lesley University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Breanne Mc Ivor was born and raised in west Trinidad. She studied English at the Universities of Cambridge and Edinburgh before returning home. She has been shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, the Glimmer Train Fiction Open, the Fish One-Page Prize and the Derek Walcott Writing Prize. In 2015, she won The Caribbean Writer’s David Hough Literary Prize. Where There Are Monsters (Peepal Tree Press) is her first short story collection.
Muli Amaye is the Coordinator of the MFA Creative Writing at The University of The West Indies, Trinidad. She is a writer from Manchester, living in Trinidad & Tobago with British/Nigerian roots. Her short fiction has appeared in many anthologies and journals and her debut novel, A House With No Angels, was published in 2019.