Carlyle Corbin, Speaker A United Nations’ expert and former U.S. Virgin Islands official, Dr. Carlyle Corbin has dedicated his career to self-determination advocacy and education — particularly as it relates to the Caribbean and Oceania — for over two decades. Hailing from the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI), Dr. Carlyle Corbin...
Kei Miller, Poet Kei Miller was born in 1978 in Kingston, Jamaica. He read English at the University of the West Indies before dropping out short of graduation. He arrived in England in 2004, to study for an MA in Creative Writing (The Novel) at Manchester Metropolitan University. He completed...
Tiphanie Yanique, Novelist, Poet, Essayist and Short Story Writer Tiphanie Yanique is a novelist, poet, essayist and short story writer. She is the author of the poetry collection, Wife, which won the 2016 Bocas Prize in Caribbean poetry and the United Kingdom’s 2016 Forward/Felix Dennis Prize for a First Collection....
Tobias Buckell, Author Tobias S. Buckell is a New York Times Bestselling and World Fantasy Award-winning author born in the Caribbean. He grew up in Grenada and spent time in the British and US Virgin Islands, which influence much of his work. His novels and over seventy stories have been...