Celeste Mohammed, Writer CELESTE MOHAMMED is a Trinidadian lawyer-turned-writer and the author of “Pleasantview”(Ig, Jacaranda, 2021; Ouida, 2022) which won the 2022 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, the 2022 CLMP Firecracker Award for Fiction, and was a finalist for the UK Society of Authors McKitterick Prize for Fiction. Celeste...
Tiphanie Yanique, Novelist, Poet, Essayist and Short Story Writer Tiphanie Yanique is the author of the novel, Monster in the Middle, which was selected as a US Library of Congress Great Read for 2023. Her most recent book is a poetry and art book called Portal, published in a limited edition to celebrate...
L. Sauda Smith, Scholar Dr. L. Sauda Smith is the Executive Director of Unite BVI Foundation. She is an alumna of Wesleyan University, the University of Wisconsin – Madison and Warnborough University. She is the former Vice President, Associate Vice President and Dean of Arts and Sciences of the H....
Alton Bertie, Creative Alton Bertie is described as a “renaissance man” from the British Virgin Islands whose work intersects music, technology, and the natural world. A passionate musician and producer, Alton is known for blending Caribbean roots with modern sound design and cinematic production. He has worked with some of...
