Lelawattee Manoo-Rahming

Lelawattee Manoo-Rahming is a Trinidadian Bahamian who was born in Trinidad and who resides in Nassau, The Bahamas where she is a practicing professional Mechanical/Building Services Engineer. A poet, fiction writer, artist and essayist, Lelawattee’s work has appeared in numerous publications in The Bahamas, the Caribbean, Nicaragua, USA and Europe, including WomanSpeak; Anthurium; The Caribbean Writer; Journal of Caribbean Literature; Poui; Thamyris; and Caribbean Erotic. Lelawattee has won the David Hough Literary Prize from The Caribbean Writer (2001); the Canute A. Brodhurst Prize for Short Fiction from The Caribbean Writer (2009); and the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association (CBA) 2001 Short Story Competition. Her first book of poetry, Curry Flavour, was published in 2000 by Peepal Tree Press, Leeds, England. Her second collection of poetry, Immortelle and Bhandaaraa Poems, which was short-listed for the Inaugural Proverse Literary Prize (2009), was published in 2011 by Proverse Hong Kong.