Shivanee Ramlochan

Shivanee Ramlochan is a Trinidadian writer. Her debut, Everyone Knows I Am a Haunting (Peepal Tree Press, 2017), was shortlisted for the 2018 Forward Prize for Best First Collection. Recently, her poems have been anthologized in 100 Queer Poems (Faber); After Sylvia: Poems and Essays in Celebration of Sylvia Plath (Nine Arches Press); Across Borders: An Anthology of New Poetry from the Commonwealth (Verve Poetry Press); Bi+ Lines: An Anthology of Contemporary Bi+ Poems (fourteen poems). Shivanee has received residencies and fellowships from Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Millay Arts, Catapult Arts Residency, and Hawthornden Brooklyn. She is currently Translation Selector for the Poetry Book Society, and has worked in Caribbean literary development for thirteen years.