Dr. Linzey Corrdion
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Dr. Linzey Corridon is a poet and a non-fiction writer committed to queer, feminist, and global south liberation. He received his PhD from the Department of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University. His critical and creative writing can be found in, among other venues, Canada and Beyond, Wasafiri, Sx Salon, Journal of West Indian Literature, and more.
His book debut titled West of West Indian, winner of the the 2025 Hamilton Literary Prize, was shortlisted for the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, the Caricon Prize for Literature, as well as being acclaimed one of the best Canadian poetry collections of 2024 by the CBC.
His forthcoming works include Verisimilitude, a long poem grappling with the fantasy of happiness and our romanticization of doom, and The Problem is That We’re Alive, his first collection of lyric essays exploring the ephemerality of queer Caribbean and diaspora life. He is a postdoctoral scholar and an instructor in the Department of English at Toronto Metropolitan University.
Dr. Corridon is also the co-creator of the Cliff Lashley and Caribbean Studies project, a digital repository for remembering the life and contributions of the literary scholar, librarian, poet, aesthete, and pioneering Queeribbean elder, Dr. Cliff Lashley.
Prior to joining the Intersect Antigua-Barbuda team, Dr. Corridon was an editorial assistant at SX Salon, Small Axe’s digital forum for innovative and critical and creative explorations of Caribbean literature. He was born and raised in the multi-island Caribbean nation of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and his scholarship and service commitments continue to emphasize both the political urgency and the cultural complexities of Queeribbean feminist experiences across the archipelago and in diaspora.
