Rashad Hosein is a Trinidad-born writer, academic and avid cook. He was longlisted for the 2021 Galley Beggar Press Prize, was a finalist for the 2020 BCLF Elizabeth Nunez Award for Caribbean Writers and was also shortlisted for the 2019 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Currently, he is pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine.