Nicholas Laughlin

Nicholas Laughlin is a writer and editor, born and living in Trinidad. He is editor of the popular arts and travel magazine Caribbean Beat, and in 2004 he revived the literary journal The Caribbean Review of Books, covering Caribbean writing for a general audience, published in print and online.

As programme director of the Bocas Lit Fest, Trinidad and Tobago’s annual literary festival, he works to bring contemporary Caribbean writers to broader audiences, with a special focus on new literary talent.

He is also co-director of Alice Yard, a non-profit contemporary art space and network based in Port of Spain, which runs a programme of exhibitions, performances, artists’ projects, and public conversations, while hosting visiting artists and curators.

He has edited a collection of early essays by C.L.R. James, Letters from London (Prospect Press, 2003); a revised and expanded edition of V.S. Naipaul’s family correspondence, Letters Between a Father and Son (Picador, 2009); and the anthology So Many Islands, bringing together new poems, fiction, and non-fiction from small-island countries in the Caribbean, Mediterranean, Pacific, and Indian Ocean (Telegram/Peekash Press, 2018).