Shivanee Ramlochan

Shivanee Ramlochan is a Trinidadian poet and essayist. Her book of poems, Everyone Knows I Am a Haunting (Peepal Tree Press, 2017) was shortlisted for the Felix Dennis Forward Prize for Best First Collection. The Red Thread Cycle, a suite of poems from her debut collection, won a Small Axe Literary Competition Prize for Poetry (second-place) and was on audiovisual display at the National Art Gallery of the Bahamas in 2019. Her second book, Unkillable, a nonfiction narrative focusing on Indo-Caribbean women’s disobedience in Trinidad, is forthcoming from Noemi Press in 2022.