Monique Roffey

 

Monique Roffey is an award winning Trinidadian born British writer of novels, essays, literary journalism and a memoir. Her most recent novel, The Mermaid of Black Conch (Peepal Tree Press), won the Costa Book of the Year Award 2020 and was longlisted for The Orwell Prize for Political Fiction. She is a co-founder of Writers Rebel within Extinction Rebellion, and a Senior Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University.