Celeste Mohammed

Celeste Mohammed is the author of the novel-in-stories Pleasantview, which won the 2022 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, the 2022 CLMP Firecracker Award for Fiction, and was a finalist for the UK Society of Authors McKitterick Prize for Fiction. Her short fiction has been recognized with numerous awards, including the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize, the Virginia Woolf Award for Short Fiction, and the John D. Gardner Memorial Prize. In 2024, she was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Her writing has also been featured in Daughters of Latin America (Amistad, 2023), an acclaimed anthology celebrating the voices of Afro-Latin and Caribbean women.She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Lesley University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Celeste lives in Trinidad.