Monique Roffey (born 1965) is an award-winning Trinidadian-born British writer and memoirist.Born in Port of Spain, Trinidad, in 1965, to a British father and mother of mixed Mediterranean origins, Roffey was educated at St Andrew's School in Maraval, Trinidad, and then in the UK at St Maur's Convent, and St George's College, Weybridge. She 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. Between 2002 and 2006 she was a Centre Director for the Arvon Foundation and later held three posts for the Royal Literary Fund (2006–12). Roffey is an experienced creative writing tutor and has taught for numerous creative writing providers and organisations including First Story, The Arvon Foundation and English PEN. She is currently Lecturer in Creative Writing on the Novel MFA at Manchester Metropolitan University. Since 2013, she has been a literary activist and advocate for emerging writers in Trinidad, teaching for COSTAATT, BOCAS Literature Festival and privately in Port of Spain, where she set up the St James Writers’ Room in 2014 and numerous other writing workshops since. She has also co-led writing retreats in Trinidad in collaboration with other Caribbean writers such as Professor Loretta Collins-Klobah and Professor Kei Miller and in partnership with Mount Plaisir Estate in Grande Riviere, Trinidad. Roffey has dual nationality and divides her time between London and Port of Spain. She is also a mitra of the Triratna Buddhist order. Wikipedia
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