Marsha Massiah, Founder and Executive Director Marsha Massiah is the Founder and Executive Director of the Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival (BCLF), the only U.S. literary festival dedicated exclusively to Caribbean literature and indigenous storytelling. Held each September, the BCLF has become a leading destination for Caribbean and diaspora writers, celebrating luminaries such as Jamaica...
Yashika Graham, Poet Yashika Graham is a Jamaican writer, visual artist and broadcaster. She is the 2019 recipient of the Mervyn Morris Prize for poetry from the University of the West Indies (UWI) where she read for a BA in Literatures in English. She is an executive member of the...
Portia Subran, Short Fiction Portia Subran is a writer and ink artist, from Chaguanas, Trinidad & Tobago. Her stories are inspired by her parents’ tales of colonial, and early post-colonial Trinidad, lived experience, and Ole Talk gathered over the years. Her artwork has been featured in Arc Magazine, and has...
Kevin Jared Hosein, Novelist Kevin Jared Hosein is an award-winning Caribbean novelist and short-story writer from Trinidad and Tobago. He was named overall winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize in 2018 and was the Caribbean regional winner in 2015. He is the author of three works of fiction for...
