Anthony Vahni Capildeo

Trinidadian Scottish writer of poetry and non-fiction Anthony Vahni Capildeo FRSL is Professor at the University of York and an Honorary Student of Christ Church, Oxford. Capildeo's interests include traditional masquerade, silence, plurilingualism, and place. Their nine books and eight pamphlets have been recognized with awards including the Windham-Campbell Prize for Poetry, the OCM Bocas Prize for Poetry, the Cholmondeley Award, and the Forward Prize. Capildeo has served as a guest editor of a special ecopoetics issue of Stand magazine, a contributing editor at PN Review and the Caribbean Review of Books, a contributing advisor at Blackbox Manifold, and on numerous mentorship schemes and judging and award committees.

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