Lelawattee Manoo-Rahming
Lelawattee Manoo-Rahming is a Trinidadian Bahamian Mechanical/Building Services Engineer with The Engineering Group. She is a poet, fiction writer, and artist whose work has appeared in Bahamian, Caribbean and international journals and anthologies. She has won poetry and short story prizes; and Poetic Form Challenges in Robert Lee Brewers Writers Digest Poetry Blog. She is the author of two poetry collections: Curry Flavour (Peepal Tree Press, 2000) and Immortelle and Bhandaaraa Poems (a hybrid work published by Proverse Hong Kong, 2011). Lelawattee first started writing poetry while attempting to recover her history as the descendant of East Indian indentured labourers brought to the Caribbean in the nineteenth century. She also writes poetry and short stories that address gender-based and domestic violence; the disastrous effects of environmental destruction; as well as climate change and its adverse effects, especially on the vulnerable small island nations.
