Sheena Kamal holds an HBA in Political Science from the University of Toronto, and was awarded a TD Canada Trust scholarship for community leadership and activism around the issue of homelessness. Her debut novel The Lost Ones (US) / Eyes Like Mine (UK) won the 2018 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize, a Strand Magazine Critics Award […]
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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) […]
Kyle Hernandez is a creatively maladjusted writer and performer. He has toured five major cities in England including a stint at the Round House Theatre. Hernandez holds a BA in Theatre with honours and has since leveraged his training to win the Motif Poetry Slam in Edinburgh, Scotland. He is a two-time first runner up […]
Shani Mootoo is a writer and visual artist. She was born in Ireland, grew up in Trinidad, and moved to Canada in her early twenties. She’s the author of two poetry books, The Predicament of Or, and her latest, Cane | Fire. She’s the author of several novels, including Polar Vortex, finalist for the 2020 […]
