An Interview with Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné
Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné is a poet and visual artist from Trinidad and Tobago. Her work has been featured in publications such as The Caribbean Writer, Small Axe Salon, Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal, The Missing Slate, Room, and Dirtcakes Poetry. She is the winner of the 2012 Small Axe Poetry Prize and the 2015 Hollick Arvon Poetry Prize. In 2013 she was shortlisted for the Montreal Poetry Prize. Danielle’s first collection of poetry is forthcoming.
Wasafiri: Tell us about how you got into writing?
DBF: I’ve been writing poetry ever since I can remember. My grandmother was a secondary school English teacher, and I grew up in a house filled with lovely old books of poetry. Reading and writing poetry was a big part of my childhood. As an adult, I started writing seriously after taking a Creative Writing course in poetry at the University of the West Indies.
