VAHNI   CAPILDEO DATE OF BIRTH: 1973 PLACE OF BIRTH: Port of Spain, Trinidad EDUCATION: University of Oxford (Christ Church), England (BA, English Language and Literature), PhD CAREER:                                 Capildeo is a writer of poetry and prose. She has held a Research Fellowship at Girton College, Cambridge, a Writing Fellowship at the University of Leeds. Capildeo has taught at the universities of Glasgow, Leeds, Sheffield, Kingston-upon-Thames and Greenwich, and was Creative Writing Professional at the University of Sheffield. She is a Contributing Editor at the Caribbean Review of Books. Capildeo wrote the following books of poetry: No Traveller Returns (2003) Person Animal Figure (2005) Undraining Sea (2009) Dark & Unaccustomed Words (2012) Utter (2013) Venus as a Bear (2018) AWARDS: Charles Oldham Shakespeare Prize Viking Society Prize for Northern Research Rhodes Scholarship Compiled by Ronald C. Emrit