Beverley Manley and Jamaica

“Jamaica, dreaming after empire,” by Amílcar Peter Sanatan. Acrylic on canvas.

Amílcar Peter Sanatan

amílcar peter sanatan works between East Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, and Helsinki, Finland. His multilingual creative writing, interviews, and reviews of books and art have appeared in literary anthologies, journals and magazines. He won the Bridget Jones Caribbean Arts Award for poetry, his creative nonfiction was shortlisted for the Johnson and Amoy Achong Prize for Caribbean Writers, and his fiction was longlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize.

sanatan participated in scholarly and arts-based fellowships with Bocas Lit Fest, Journal of International Women’s Studies and Promundo. He is the author of two poetry chapbooks: About Kingston (Peekash Press) and The Black Flâneur: Diary of Dizain Poems, Anthropology of Hurt (Ethel Zine & Micro Press).

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