Carolyn Whitier is a first year MFA student. She is an active member of the deaf community being proficient in both TTSL and ASL.
Alake Pilgrim is a writer from the Caribbean. She has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia, thanks to the Booker Prize Foundation Scholarship, and an MA from New York University. She writes for both adults and children. Her book ZO AND THE FOREST OF SECRETS (for 8+ readers), is out this summer in the UK & Commonwealth. Alake's stories have twice won the prize for the Americas in the Commonwealth Short Story Competition. They have been published by The Center for Fiction in New York, the Small Axe Journal, The Haunted Tropics edited by Martin Munro (UWI Press), and in the international anthology New Daughters of Africa,edited by Margaret Busby (Myriad Editions and HarperCollins).
Rakhee Kissoon is a Trinidadian author and MFA student. Her recent book The Reluctant Husband is available on Amazon and is highly recommended.
Torshia Seales is a freelance Trinidadian writer. She is reading an excerpt from her short story The Longest Rope which won first place in the Bedford International Short Story Competition in 2019.
Adam Andrews, is a writer, musician, and an academic.
Ayana Carmona is currently undertaking her degree in Communication Studies at The UWI. She has a diploma in sign language. Ayana wrote this poem in response to a recent tragedy, with permission from the families and wanted to share it in remembrance.