BRENDON ALEKSEII is a Trinbagonian writer, director, performer, and teaching artist. He uses the performing arts as a tool for engendering compassion and examining ranges of Caribbeanness. As a spoken word poet, he has been a five-time finalist of the First Citizens National Poetry Slam (previously the Verses Bocas Poetry Slam). He also served as a coach for the Roots Foundation’s TCT Youth Poetry Team at the 2019 Brave New Voices Poetry Festival. A 2018 Resident of the Cropper Foundation Residential Writers’ Retreat, his writing has been featured in CULTUREGO, Into The Void, and The Pitkin Review. He lives in Trinidad with his more talented spouse and five cats.
