Holiday Facilitators: Monique Roffey
skill, experience, warmth
Biography
Monique Roffey is an award-winning Trinidadian-born British writer. Her latest novel The Mermaid of Black Conch won the Costa Book of the Year, 2020. It is also shortlisted for the Goldsmith Prize 2020 and longlisted for the Rathbones/Folio Award. She is author of seven books, six novels and a memoir. The White Woman on the Green Bicycle was shortlisted for the Orange prize in 2010. In 2013, Archipelago won the OCM BOCAS Award for Caribbean Literature. She is Senior Lecturer on the MFA/MA in Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University and has taught for Skyros for many years.
