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Amanda Choo Quan
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Contributor, Freelance
Los Angeles, Tobago
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Biography
Amanda Choo Quan is a Trinidadian-Jamaican writer and activist. She won the 2020 Johnson and Amoy Achong Caribbean Writers Prize—one of the region's most significant for emerging writers. Focusing on race, displacement and her homeland, her work appears in Harper’s Bazaar, Caribbean Beat, Callaloo, Entropy, and WORDPEACE. Choo Quan has been awarded scholarships, fellowships and residencies from Callaloo, the Truman Capote Foundation, Juniper, and the Cropper Foundation. In 2018, after graduating from an MFA in Creative Writing at CalArts, she became a REEF Artist-in-Residence. Working with Los Angeles’ literary community, she staged events prioritising writers of colour. Currently, Amanda is based in her home country of Trinidad and Tobago, where she worked as head of communications of the UN Refugee Agency’s country office. In collaboration with the Bocas Lit Fest, she has also co-produced and hosted a podcast aimed at connecting new Caribbean writers to agents and editors overseas.
Caribbean art, literature, Caribbean culture race, Caribbean music, Black historyRefugees, politics, identity the Global South, Blackness, displacement
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Freelance
De Pere, Wisconsin, United States