Dr. Ramabai Espinet is Trinidadian by birth and now lives in Canada. She is a writer, critic and academic. She is retired from her position as Professor of English at Seneca College but continues to lecture in Caribbean Studies at New College, University of Toronto. Ramabai Espinet’s creative works include a novel, The Swinging Bridge, Nuclear Seasons, poetry, and Indian Robber Talk, performance poetry. She is also the editor of Creation Fire, an anthology of 121 Caribbean women’s poetry in several languages, published in 1990. In 2008 she was awarded the Nicolas Guillen International Prize for Philosophical Literature. A documentary on her work, Coming Home, has been done by Leda Serene, Caribbean Tales.