Monique Roffey was born in
Port of Spain, Trinidad, and educated in the UK. Since then she has worked as a
center director for the Arvon Foundation and has held the post of Royal
Literary Fund Fellow at Sussex, Chichester, and Greenwich universities. She is
the author of several highly acclaimed including novels Sun Dog and Archipelago,
which is a finalist for the 2013 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature. She
has also written a memoir, With the
Kisses of His Mouth.
