DANIELLE BOODOO-FORTUNÉ, a poet and artist, was born in 1986 in the twin-island Caribbean nation of Trinidad & Tobago. She holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Literatures in English from the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine campus, where she later completed a Creative Writing Course in Poetry, taught by Casa de las Américas prize-winner Jennifer Rahim.
Her poetry has appeared in several local and international journals such as Poetry Magazine, Poetry London, The Rialto, the Prairie Schooner, The Asian American Literary Review, Bim: Arts for the 21st Century, the Caribbean Writer, Small Axe Literary Salon, Poui: Cave Hill Journal of Creative Writing, and Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal.
Her poetry has also been featured in anthologies such as Coming Up Hot: Eight New Poets from the Caribbean (2015), Thicker than Water (2019), both published by Peekash Press, and the award-winning bilingual anthology The Sea Has No Ornament, published by Peepal Tree Press in 2020.
Boodoo-Fortuné’s awards include:
• The Charlotte and Isidor Paeiwonsky Prize by The Caribbean Writer (2009)
• Small Axe Poetry Prize (2012)
• Hollick Arvon Caribbean Writers’ Poetry Prize (2015)
• Wasafiri New Writing Prize (2016) and
• OCM Bocas Prize for Poetry (2019)
Boodoo-Fortuné’s nominations include:
• Pushcart Prize (2010)
• Best New Poets (2013)
• Wasafiri New Writing Prize (2013) and
• Montreal Poetry Prize (2013, 2017 & 2020)
She lives in Sangre Grande, Trinidad, with her husband and two young sons.
Visit the poet's official website at www.daniellebooodoofortune.com/
Photo Credit: Trinidad & Tobago Newsday Newspapers