Amanda T. McIntyre is a Caribbean poet, currently based in Hangzhou, China. She was previously Art Administrator at New Local Space (NLS), Kingston, Jamaica. In 2020 she was a faculty member for La Pràctica Artists Residency and an advisor for the NLS, Curatorial, and Art Writing Fellowship. In 2021 she completed the Obsidian Foundation’s retreat for black poets. In the months that followed she was shortlisted for the Plaza Poetry Prize (60 lines) and longlisted for the Plaza Poetry Prize (40 lines). In the same year she was longlisted for the prestigious Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize. She is one of the winners of the 2023 Poetry Archive Now Wordview competition.
At seventy three, Motilal Boodoosingh is a retired Offshore Production worker. He is the holder or a BA in Literature and Communications, a certificate in The Teaching of Reading from UWI as well as an Adult Literacy Tutors Certificate. He spent two rewarding years as a Tutor with ALTA. He successfully completed the UWI/Cropper’s Foundation Creative Writing Course in 2016. Motilal has published four volumes of short stories.
Caron R Asgarali is an educator, author, inspirational speaker, book developer and ghost writer. She hosts a free online Writing to Heal program to equip people with writing tools to recover from some of life's challenges and to facilitate building a legacy of resilience. https://caronrasgarali78691029.wordpress.com/blog-2/ for full bio.
Aaron Ganga is a third year undergraduate student in the Department of Literary Cultural and Communication Studies at UWI St Augustine campus. This is the first time he has shared his work.
Kavita Rajpath graduated from the MFA Creative Writing at UWI St Augustine campus. She continues to write and has many more stories to bring to the page.
Sammarko Lightbourne is a Bahamian writer, born and raised in great. Exuma. He obtained his B. A in English Studies from the College of The Bahamas in 2014 and is currently completing his manuscript in the MFA in Creative Writing program at UWI-St Augustine. He dabbles in science fiction, fantasy, weird fiction, and contemporary literature. He currently works as a journalist in The Bahamas with special interests in foreign policy reporting, education reform, and climate change stories. When he is not writing for leisure or under duress, he enjoys kayaking, playing competitive video games, learning to code, and making furniture out of driftwood.