Jay T. John

THE CARIBBEAN - Trinidad and Tobago

Jay T. John

Jay T. John is a nonbinary Trinidadian poet who uses art to contextualize and highlight the nuanced experience of otherness. Their poetry has appeared in the 2018 anthology Unwritten: Caribbean Poems after the First World War, and they have been shortlisted for both the 2021 Johnson & Amoy Achong Caribbean Writers Prize as well as the 2022 Bocas Emerging Writers Fellowships. Jay continues to be inspired and moved by the works of other writers across the Caribbean diaspora. Their greatest aspiration is to create art as resistance.

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By Jay T. John