Authors & Presenters

Predencia Dixon (nee Gabbidon) was born in Jamaica and moved to England at the age of ten. She’s a teacher who spent nearly twenty years working with children and young people with severely challenging behaviours, all of whom had been abused in som...

David Edgecombe developed his passion for theatre and the spoken word growing up on Montserrat where he wrote and directed plays and produced concerts as a schoolboy. He was a founding member of his High School’s Dramatic Society and its president....

David Elliott, born in Ohio, is the author of over fifteen picture books and novels for young people, including The New York Times Bestselling And Here’s to You! Other titles include: Finn Throws a Fit, Evangeline Mudd and the Golden-Haired Apes of t...

Professor, Sir Howard Fergus is widely published in the fields of history, education, poetry and literary criticism. His works include History of Education in the British Leeward Islands (2003), Montserrat: History of a Caribbean Colony (1994, 2004),...

Jump Up Together Kiss My Rag Last Lap Masqueraders Come Watching You Watching Me Carnival Day Judging Point Tribute To Arrow Internationally-renowned Soca artist, Garvin ‘Scrappy’ Johnson, was born in Trinidad.  He has earl...

Richardo Keens-Douglas is a popular and acclaimed master storyteller, emphasising the art of oral culture and bringing to life stories of the Caribbean in English, French and Spanish.  His stories often explore the theme of self-acceptance and lea...

Kyoko Mori was raised in Japan and, inspired by her mother and grandfather, began to write in both Japanese and English at an early age.  She moved to the US at the age of 16 to complete secondary school and attend college, receiving her undergradua...

  Jo-Annah Richards was born in Montserrat and is now located in the UK. She has always had a passion for using words to create vivid and dramatic imagery. Jo-Annah has written poetry, prose, songs and speeches from a young age. At the age of ten s...

I’m Charmaine Riley 28 years of age, born and bred in Leeds West Yorkshire England UK. However, I’m proud to say that both my maternal grandparents (Sylvia White Riley and Will Riley) hail from Montserrat particularly my grandma who brought...

Olive Senior was born in Jamaica and attended Montego Bay High School where she launched her own literary magazine.   After graduation, she was hired by one of Jamaica’s leading newspapers, The Daily Gleaner. She earned a B.S. in Journalism from...

Ian Thomson was born in London and educated at Dulwich College and Cambridge University.  He began his career as a teacher of English literature and English as a foreign language in Rome and also worked there as a journalist (1984-86).  He then bec...