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. Her novels have been translated into five languages and shortlisted for several major awards; in 2013, Archipelago won the OCM BOCAS Award for Caribbean Literature. She is currently Lecturer on the MFA/MA in Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University.