Speaker
Ingrid Persaud
Commonwealth Short Story Prize–winning author, TrinidadAbout
Born in Trinidad, Ingrid Persaud won the Commonwealth Short Story Prize in 2017 and the BBC Short Story Award in 2018. She studied law at the London School of Economics and was a legal academic before earning degrees in fine art at Goldsmiths College and Central Saint Martins. Her writing has appeared in Granta, Prospect and Pree magazines. Persaud lives in London and Barbados.
Guest of the festival in 2026
Festival schedule →Participating in
FRI 1:00 PMMACHINE MOUTH: AI and the Future of Storytelling
FRI 7:00 PMLove Forms and Love Songs
SAT 9:00 AMKRIK? KRAK? The Short Story and the Oral Tradition