Andre Bagoo

Andre Bagoo is a Trinidadian writer, poet, essayist and journalist. His latest books include the poetry collection Midnight Bestiaries (Broken Sleep Books, 2024), the short fiction sequence The Dreaming (Peepal Tree Press, 2022) and the essay collection The Undiscovered Country (Peepal Tree, 2020), which won the 2021 OCM Bocas Prize for Non-Fiction. He was the winner of The Charlotte and Isidor Paiewonsky Prize for a poem from his third poetry collection Pitch Lake (Peepal Tree, 2017). His poetry, which often reflects his interest in hybrid literary forms including visual poetry, has appeared in journals such as Boston Review, Cincinnati Review, DIAGRAM, PN Review, POETRY, and The Poetry Review, for which he was selected as a guest editor in 2022.

Portrait photo by Azriel Boodram