Vahni Capildeo
Trinidadian-British poet Vahni Capildeo was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad. They earned a PhD at Oxford University, where they were a Rhodes Scholar studying translation theory and Old Norse. Their poetry collections include No Traveller Returns (2003), Undraining Sea (2009), Dark and Unaccustomed Words (2012), Utter (2013), Measures of Expatriation (2016) which won the 2016 Forward Prize, and Venus as a Bear (2018). Capildeo has served as a contributing editor for the Caribbean Review of Books and as an editorial assistant and a researcher for the Oxford English Dictionary. They are the Douglas Caster Cultural Fellow in Poetry at the University of Leeds and have lived in the United Kingdom since 1991.
