Shivanee Ramlochan is a Trinidadian poet, arts reporter, and book blogger. I had the opportunity to read Shivanee’s book of poems Everyone Knows I Am a Haunting a few months ago and I found it a powerful experience. In our conversation, Shivanee and I talked about her book, making art out of our traumas, and navigating audience responses to our work. Then in the second segment, we talked about how few opportunities there can be for marginalized writers, and how this often creates an unnecessarily competitive environment.

(Conversation recorded January 24, 2019.)

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• Shivanee Ramlochan
• Shivanee Ramlochan - Everyone Knows I Am a Haunting: Peepal Tree Press | IndieBound | B&N
• Sonia Farmer
• Sonia Farmer - The Red Thread Cycle in NE9
• National Art Gallery of the Bahamas - National Exhibition 9: “The Fruit and the Seed”
• Alice Hiller - “Everything I write, I give access to devastate me first”: Shivanee Ramlochan, on ‘saying the difficult thing’ with “weapons of conjure”
• NGC Bocas Lit Fest
• Forward Prizes for Poetry 2018
• Colin Kaepernick
• Novel Niche
• Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné
• Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné - Doe Songs: Peepal Tree Press | IndieBound | B&N