Born in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, Vahni Capildeo has lived in the UK since 1991, where she has published four poetry collections including Undraining Sea (2009), Dark & Unaccustomed Words (2012) - longlisted for the 2013 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature - and Utter (2013). She is also the author of No Traveller Returns (2003) and Person Animal Figure (2005). A long-time contributing editor to the Caribbean Review of Books, she is also contributing advisor to Black Box Manifold. Excerpts from her book-length work One Skattered Skeleton have been published in various places, including Ian Sinclair's London: City of Disappearances (2006).