Sasenarine Persaud

Sasenarine Persaud was born in Guyana. An essayist, a novelist, a short story writer, and a poet, he is the author of Mattress Makers (2023), Monsoon on the Fingers of God (2018), Love in a Time of Technology (2014), Lantana Strangling Ixora (2011), and In a Boston Night (2008), all from Mawenzi House Publishers, and Unclosed Entrances: Selected Poems (The Caribbean Press, 2011). His work has appeared in TheOxford Book of Caribbean Verse (Oxford University Press, 2003) and TheOxford Book of Caribbean Short Stories (Oxford University Press, 2001), among other publications. Persaud braids Hindu philosophy, myth, and ritual together in what he describes as “Yogic Realism.” 

Persaud’s honors and awards include a KM Hunter Foundation Award, fiction and poetry awards from the Ontario Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts, and a fellowship from Boston University. His poetry has been nominated for the Canadian National Magazine Award and the Forward Prize in the United Kingdom. He has served as vice president and chair of the League of Canadian Poets’ membership committee, as board director of the Scarborough (Ontario) Arts Council, and on juries for the Toronto Arts Council and the Ontario Arts Council. He resides in Tampa, Florida.