Judy Raymond

JUDY RAYMOND, writer, editor and journalist, lives in Trinidad. She has published four nonfiction books. Beryl McBurnie (UWI Press, 2018) was an Award-Winning Finalist, Autobiography/Memoir, in the 2019 International Book Awards. The Colour of Shadows: Images of Caribbean Slavery (2016), inspired by the work of British-born artist Richard Bridgens who lived in Trinidad, details the lives of enslaved people in the last years before Emancipation. A runner-up for the 2013 Bocas Lit Fest Hollick Arvon Prize (non-fiction), it was awarded a 2015 research grant from Yale University’s Paul Mellon Centre for the Study of British Art. 

Raymond’s work has also appeared in anthologies. Recently her fiction has appeared in magazines and anthologies and has been listed for several awards. Her short story “The Old Monsters” was shortlisted for the 2023 Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival Award for Writers in the Caribbean. “The View from Belle Eau Road” was longlisted in 2024.