Caribbean

Writer Chely Lima was born in Havana, Cuba. Lima studied at the University of Havana, going on to work for the Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Art and Industry. He is the author of over a dozen books, including...

fahima ife (she/her) is an American poet, essayist, and editor. She is the author of the poetry books Septet for the Luminous Ones (Wesleyan University Press, 2024) and Maroon Choreography (Duke University...

Grisel Y. Acosta (she/they) is a professor at Bronx Community College of the City University of New York. Their poetry collection, Things to Pack on the Way to Everywhere (Get Fresh Books, 2021), was a 2020...

Luis Tubens (he/him), also known as “Logan Lu,” is a Chicago-born, Puerto Rican spoken-word artist and educator. He is the author of Stone Eagle (Bobbin Lace Press, 2017). In 2014 and 2018, he represented ...

Lola Rosario (she/her) is a spoken-word poet, freelance journalist, and translator from New York City. She is the author of the chapbook Daughter de Borikén (Editorial Pulpo, 2024). Her work on identity, feminism...

Marta Collazo (she/her) is a Queer, Afro-Latina poet who has explored and deconstructed how heteronormative constructs, culture, gender, spirituality, monogamy, body agency, guilt, and shame play a role in...

Crystal Vance Guerra (she/her) is a Chicana poet, historian, and educator based in Chicago and Mexico City. Her art is Latin Americanist at root, often Spanglish in expression, and written to be read out loud...

Scheherazade Tillet (she/her) is a photo-based artist, curator, and feminist activist. Tillet’s work focuses on themes like Blackness, play, freedom, trauma, and healing. Tillet’s work has been showcased at...

Chandanie Somwaru (she/her) is an Indo-Caribbean woman born and raised in Queens, New York. She is the author of Urgent \\ Where the Mind Goes \\ Scattered (Ghostbird Press, 2021). Her writing has been published...

Born in Neenah, Wisconsin, Michelle Alexander (she/her) is an American Trinidadian poet, creative nonfiction writer, mixed media artist, and teaching artist. She is the author of the chapbook She Takes a Machete...

Lauren K. Alleyne is the author of two collections of poetry, Difficult Fruit (2014) and Honeyfish (2019), and two chapbooks, Dawn in the Kaatskills (2008) and (Un)Becoming Gretel (2022). She is a coeditor...

Writer, critic, editor, and teacher Canisia Lubrin grew up in St. Lucia. She studied at York University and earned an MFA at the University of Guelph. Lubrin is the author of the poetry collections The Dyzgraphxst...

Poet and musician Bonafide Rojas was born and raised in the Bronx. He is the author of four collections of poetry: Pelo Bueno: A Day in the Life of a Nuyorican Poet (Dark Souls Press, 2004), When the City ...

Poet and educator Maya Islas was born in Cabaiguán, Las Villas, on the island of Cuba. At the age of 17, she left Cuba, and has been living in the United States for the past several decades. Her collections...

Roque Salas Rivera (he/they) is a poet, translator, and editor from Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. In 2018, he was named poet laureate of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Rivera is the author of several collections of ...

Carmen T. Bernier-Grand was born and raised in Puerto Rico. She is the author of numerous books for children and young adults, many of which are biographies of important Latino and Hispanic figures, including...

Writer, editor, and poet Michelle Cliff was born in Kingston, Jamaica, and grew up in Jamaica and the United States. She earned a BA at Wagner College and did her graduate work at the University of London’...

Trinidadian-British poet Vahni Capildeo was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad. They earned a PhD at Oxford University, where they were a Rhodes Scholar studying translation theory and Old Norse. They completed...

Nicole Sealey was born in St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands, and raised in Apopka, Florida. She earned an MLA in Africana studies from the University of South Florida and an MFA in creative writing from New York...

M. NourbeSe Philip was born in Tobago. She earned a BSc from the University of the West Indies and an MA and LLB from the University of Western Ontario. Philip was a practicing lawyer for seven years before...