About Me

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I’m a writer, lecturer and environmental activist and have been writing for over twenty years. In this time, I’ve published eight books, (a memoir and seven novels), some short fiction, many essays and some literary journalism. You can find out more about my books HERE

Some of my books have been awarded prizes, or been nominated for prizes, such as, the Costa Fiction Award, 2020, and the Costa Book of the Year, 2020, for The Mermaid of Black Conch. In 2013, Archipelago won the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature. The White Woman on the Green Bicycle was shortlisted for the Orange Prize, 2010.

I also teach on the MA in creative writing at Manchester Metropolitan University. I’m currently there as Professor of Contemporary Fiction. I love being on staff at a busy writing school; teaching emerging writers gives me much pleasure and is very rewarding. You can check out the Man Met Writing School HERE

Back in 2019, myself and a small band of writer friends co-founded Writers Rebel: take a look at the website HERE. WR is group inside Extinction Rebellion. Drop Writers Rebel a line should you wish to get involved or write for them. I’m also part of the Hard Art Collective and am an Ambassador for Just Stop Oil. You can find out more about JSO HERE

I was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad, and my family, and many friends live in Trinidad. I go back and forth often. I’m bi-cultural. London is home and so is Port of Spain.

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“I loved this novel with the kind of passion that makes the reading experience a kind of possession. I loved its sassy carnival of characters, its revolutionary vision, its prose full of the lush rhythms of the Caribbean, its outrage but also its generosity of spirit—there is room for redemption. Using the time frame of Lent and Easter Roffey, creates a new passion story that provides hope in community and in the liberating possibilities of transformation. Roffey has fashioned—to quote her own words—an “unruly glory” of a novel. . . .the novel contains that rare quality I’m hungry for in fiction: a soul.”

Julia AlvarezAuthor
The Cemetery of Untold Stories