Richard Georges was born in Trinidad and raised in the British Virgin Islands where he works as a writer, editor, and lecturer. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Prelude, Smartish Pace, The Poetry Review, WILDNESS, Wasafiri, decomP, The Rusty Toque, Reservoir, L'Ephemere, The 2018 Forward Book of Poetry, and elsewhere. He is the author of Make Us All Islands (Shearsman), which was shortlisted for the 2017 Felix Dennis Forward Prize. His latest book is Giant (Platypus Press).