About

Richard Georges is the first Virgin Islands Poet Laureate (2020) and the author of three collections of poetry, as well as essays and fiction. His most recent collection, Epiphaneia (2019), won the 2020 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature. His first debut, Make Us All Islands (2017), was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and his second book, Giant (2018), was highly commended by the Forward Prizes and longlisted for the OCM Bocas Prize.

A recipient of a Fellowship from the Stellenbosch Institute of Advanced Study, and a Pushcart Prize nominee, Richard holds a PhD in Critical and Creative Writing from the University of Sussex, and is a Founding Editor of Moko. He currently serves as the seventh president of H. Lavity Stoutt Community College in Tortola. Richard is working on a novel and is represented by Elise Dillsworth.