Carinya Sharples is a writer, facilitator and teacher. Her fiction and non-fiction have been published by The London Reader, BBC World Service, Gal-Dem, among others. She was longlisted for Mslexia’s Short Story Competition 2022, selected to read at Kendal Mountain Literature Festival 2021’s Open Mountain event, and shortlisted for Rebel Women Lit’s Caribbean Reader’s Awards 2020 (Non-Fiction Individual Pieces) and Flipside Festival’s Green Alphabet Writing Prize 2017. She is currently pursuing a PhD at the University of Leicester, exploring mixedness and creativity in contemporary Guyanese literature.