ROBERT ANTONI is equal parts Trinbagonian, Bahamian, and US citizen. His fictional world is the British West Indies?the region's history, geography, mythology, folklore, and above all its vernacular languages. His books have garnered a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, an NEA grant, the Bocas Prize for Best Book from the Caribbean, the Aga Kahn Prize from the Paris Review, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Trinidad & Tobago National Library. Antoni's work has been translated into five languages. He holds an MA from the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University, and an MFA and PhD from the Writers Workshop at the University of Iowa. Antoni has taught in writing programs across the United States, and he presently teaches in the Pan-European MFA for Creative Writing, with alternating residencies in Barcelona, Vienna, and Dublin.