Jennifer Rahim

Jennifer Rahim's poems have appeared in several Caribbean and international journals and anthologies. Some of these include The Caribbean Writer, Small Axe, The Trinidad and Tobago Review, The Graham House Review, Mangrove, The Malahat Review, Crossing Water, Creation Fire, The Sisters of Caliban, Crab Orchard Review and Atlanta Review. Short stories have appeared in The New Voices, The Caribbean Writer and Caribbean Voices I.

Awards include The Gulf Insurance Writers Scholarship (1996) to attend the Caribbean Writers Summer Institute, Univ. of Miami; The New Voices Award of Merit (1993) for outstanding contributions to The New Voices journal; The Writers Union of Trinidad and Tobago Writer of the Year Award (1992) for the publication, Mothers Are Not The Only Linguists; the Casa de las Américas Prize 2010, where the jury said Approaching Sabbaths "captures a sense of the complexities of historical, social and cultural aspects of contemporary Caribbean"; and the 2018 OCM BOCAS prize for Caribbean Literature for Curfew Chronicles.  Her revisions of the text of Goodbye Bay, her final novel, were delivered shortly before her sudden and unexpected death in January 2023. Peepal Tree Press will publish her collected poems in 2024, which will contain a substantial amount of recent work.