Shivanee Ramlochan

Her work has been published in the Caribbean Review of Books, tongues of the ocean, and Draconian Switch. Several of her poems featured in the anthology Coming Up Hot: 8 new poets from the Caribbean (Peekash Press, 2015). In 2017, she published her first collection of poems Everyone Knows I Am a Haunting with Peepal Tree Press. Reviewing this collection in The Guardian, Sarala Estruch noted: "This astonishing debut gives voice to sufferings and struggles of women, the queer and non-binary, reminiscent of Audre Lorde's call for 'the transformation of silence into language and action'. But what makes this collection truly revelatory is its bold envisioning of a Trinidad – and, beyond that, a world – in which identities and hierarchies of power are fluid rather than fixed. It is a fierce world, ripe with possibility: 'I am the queen / the comeuppance / the hard heretic nature intended. In 2019, Ramlochan collaborated with Bahamian book artist Sonia Farmer on "The Red Thread Cycle", an artist book project using Ramlochan's words and Farmer’s visual design that was on display at the National Art Gallery of the Bahamas. Ramlochan has cited Jean Rhys, Vahni Capildeo, and Gaiutra Bahadur as influences. Ramlochan has also noted her "creative community with Douen Islands, an artistic performance collective founded by Trinidadians, poet Andre Bagoo and graphic designer Kriston Chen". Ramlochan's second book Unkillable is forthcoming in 2023 from Noemi Press as part of the Infidel Poetics series.

In 2012, Ramlochan was shortlisted for the Small Axe Literary Competition for Poetry, and in 2014 she won second prize in the same competition for "The Red Thread Cycle", from her debut collection. In 2013, she was selected as one of three New Talent Showcase writers at the NGC Bocas Lit Fest. She was shortlisted for the 2015 Hollick Arvon Caribbean Writers Prize. In 2018, her first collection of poems, Everyone Knows I Am a Haunting, was shortlisted for the Felix Dennis Prize for best first collection. In the same year, she was shortlisted for the Bridport Poetry Prize, was a finalist for the People's Choice T&T Book of the Year, and was shortlisted for Forward Arts Foundation's best first collection prize.