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...
Yona Deshommes, Publisher Yona Deshommes began her professional career in education as a certified teaching assistant and Academic Coordinator at Edwin Gould Academy, a residential treatment center in Chestnut Ridge, NY, where she created and facilitated several cultural and educational programs for at-risk youth from the juvenile justice and foster...
Elise Dillsworth, Literary Agent Elise Dillsworth became a literary agent in 2012. Previously she was a commissioning editor at Virago Press, an imprint of Little Brown Book Group. She co-founded the Diversity in Publishing Network in 2004, which received the New Venture Award from Women in Publishing in 2005. She represents...
Dr. Patricia Turnbull, Author, Poet Patricia G. Turnbull is a writer, cultural activist and independent scholar. A former Principal Lecturer in Humanities at H. Lavity Stoutt Community College, she has for four decades been teaching, mentoring, and introducing new writers to the Lit life. A member of the Editorial Board...
