George Goddard was born in Saint Lucia. He is an Industrial Relations Specialist and was educated at St. Mary’s College (Saint Lucia), Saint Lucia Teachers’ College (now Sir Arthur Lewis College, Division of Teacher Education), studied Industrial Relations and holds an MBA in Management from the Cave Hill School of Business, University of the West Indies. In 2016, he published his first collection of poetry Interstice. His work has also appeared in the Caribbean Writer (2017); Interviewing the Caribbean (2017); the Missing Slate (2015); Arts Etc. (2015); Sent Lisi: Poems and Art of Saint Lucia (2014); Tongues of the Ocean (2010 & 2009) and Roseau Valley (2003). He writes both in English and Saint Lucian French Kwéyòl.