Kerry A Belgrave is linguist, researcher and teacher who has been writing poetry seriously for the past twenty four years. He has won the James Millington Award for Music, the Prime Minister’s Scholarship for Excellence in Literature (Barbados), the Kamau Brathwaite Award for Poetry on two occasions, and first prize in the Frank Collymore Literary Award on two occasions. He is a fellow of the Cropper Writers’ Foundation (UWI, Trinidad) and was a finalist in the 2019 Stephen A DiBiase International Poetry Contest. Kerry served as a former Chairman of the Linguistics Special Committee in the Department of Language, Linguistics and Literature of The UWI Cave Hill. He currently works at the Erdiston Teachers’ Training College as Tutor of English Language and Literature and Coordinator of the Literacy Diagnostic Assessment and Early Intervention Centre.