Brian Sankarsingh

Brian Sankarsingh, known as BrianthePoet, writes with urgency, purpose, and emotional depth. He is the award-winning author of Enslaved: A Chronicle of Resistance, a four-book series that earned the Best Historical Fiction award at the International Impact Book Awards (2025). Through poetry and narrative, he brings the lives of enslaved Africans and historical figures into sharp, human focus, thus capturing both the brutality of history and the enduring strength of those who resisted it.

His growing body of work reflects a deep commitment to memory, identity, and healing. In Decolonizing the Trinidadian Mind (2025), he confronts the lingering impact of colonialism on culture and consciousness. Whispers Under the Silk Cotton Tree (2025), a Canreads Book Awards finalist in Poetry/Short Story (2026), moves through memory and ancestral voice with quiet intensity. His latest book, a memoir titled Thoughts on an Unfinished Life: Surviving the Break and Reclaiming the Rhythm (2026), turns inward, exploring rupture, recovery, and the difficult work of rebuilding self.

Rooted in his Trinidadian heritage and shaped by a North American context, Sankarsingh’s writing bridges past and present, personal and collective. He doesn’t write to distance you from history, but to place you inside it, to feel its weight, and to question what it still asks of you.