Tobago-born writer-in-training, Lynette Hazel is currently pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing at the UWI St Augustine Campus. She is the winner of the 2015 UWI Faculty of Humanities and Education Award for Creative Writing (Prose and Poetry) and the Kamau Brathwaite Bursary Awardee (2021). She wishes to contribute to the literature of Tobago and the wider Caribbean.