Monique Pauline Roffey was born on 1965 and is a Trinidadian-born British writer and memoirist.
10 Facts About Monique Roffey
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Monique Roffey's novels have been much acclaimed, winning awards including the 2013 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, for Archipelago, and the Costa Book of the Year award, for The Mermaid of Black Conch in 2021.
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Monique Roffey graduated with a BA in English and Film Studies from the University of East Anglia in 1987, and later completed an MA and PhD in Creative Writing at Lancaster University.
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Monique Roffey is an experienced creative writing tutor and has taught for numerous creative writing providers and organisations, including The National Writers Centre, First Story, The Arvon Foundation and English PEN.
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Monique Roffey is a Professor of Contemporary Fiction at Manchester Metropolitan University, teaching creative writing on the novel route MA.
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Monique Roffey has co-led writing retreats in Trinidad in collaboration with other Caribbean writers such as Professor Loretta Collins-Klobah in partnership with Mount Plaisir Estate in Grande Riviere, Trinidad.
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Monique Roffey is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a co-founder of the group Writers Rebel inside Extinction Rebellion.
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Monique Roffey is a mitra of the Triratna Buddhist order.
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Monique Roffey's 2014 novel, House of Ashes, is a fictionalised account of the events surrounding the 1990 attempted coup in Trinidad.
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Monique Roffey writes an erotically charged fable that mixes the real with the mythological, a truly unsettling and disturbing novel.