Shivanee Ramlochan is a Trinidadian poet and essayist. Her debut, Everyone Knows I Am a Haunting (Peepal Tree Press), was shortlisted for a Forward Prize for Poetry. Recently, her poems have been anthologised 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); Nature Matters: Vital Poems from the Global Majority (Faber). 

Shivanee was a 2019 John Ciardi Poetry Fellow at Bread Loaf Writers Conference; a 2019 Millay Arts Poetry alumna; a 2020 Catapult Arts Residency awardee, and a 2024 Peter Taylor Creative Non Fiction Fellow at Kenyon Review Writers Workshop. She is the Festival and Programme Manager of the Bocas Lit Fest, the Caribbean’s largest Anglophone literary festival, and has worked in Caribbean literary development for fifteen years.  

Photo: Elechi Todd