Desiree C. Bailey, Author Desiree C. Bailey is the author of What Noise Against the Cane (Yale University Press, 2021), which won the 2020 Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize, was a finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and was longlisted for...
Ana Portnoy Brimmer, Poet and Organiser Ana Portnoy Brimmer is a poet and organiser from Puerto Rico. She holds a BA and an MA in English Literature from the University of Puerto Rico, and is an alumna of the MFA program in Creative Writing at Rutgers University-Newark. To Love an Island,...
Derron Sandy, Poetry Slam Winner Derron Sandy was born in 1987 in Maloney, Trinidad and Tobago. He has been a full time performer for eight years extending his art form into innovative solutions. He provides creative direction (theatre and film), educational products, master classes and riveting performances. Sandy is a...
Andre Bagoo, Poet and WriterAndre Bagoo is a poet and writer from Trinidad. Andre Bagoo is a poet and writer, the author of four books of poems including BURN(Shearsman, 2012), Pitch Lake (Peepal Tree Press, 2017) and a book of essays, The Undiscovered Country) Peepal Tree Press, 2020). The Undiscovered Country was winner the non-fiction...