Ayanna Lloyd Banwo

Ayanna Lloyd Banwo is a Trinidadian writer who lives in London. She holds a BA in literatures in English from the University of the West Indies and an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia, where she is completing a PhD in Creative and Critical Writing. Before writing full time she taught English and literature for about ten years and worked in corporate communications, advertising and freelance journalism. Her debut novel, When We Were Birds (Hamish Hamilton, 2022), won the 2023 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature.

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