Poetry

Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné is a poet and visual artist from Trinidad and Tobago. Her work has been featured in numerous journals such as Poetry London, the Prairie Schooner, the Rialto, The Asian American Literary Review, Small Axe and others. Danielle was the 2015 winner of the Hollick-Arvon Caribbean Writers’ Poetry Prize, the 2016 winner of the Wasafiri New Writing Prize, and was shortlisted for the Montreal Poetry Prize in 2013, 2017 and 2020. Her first collection of poems, Doe Songs, (2018, Peepal Tree Press), was awarded the 2019 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature in the poetry category.