Roffey, Monique

Monique Roffey was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad, and educated in the UK. Since then she has worked as a center director for the Arvon Foundation and has held the post of Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Sussex, Chichester, and Greenwich universities. She is the author of several highly acclaimed including novels "Sun Dog" and "Archipelago", which is a finalist for the 2013 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature. She has also written a memoir, "With the Kisses of His Mouth".