Jennifer Rahim

Jennifer Rahim (born 1963) is a Trinidadian educator and writer. She lectures on literature at the University of the West Indies.

Rahim published her first collection of poetry Mothers Are Not the Only Linguists in 1992; it received The Writers Union of Trinidad and Tobago Writer of the Year Award. Her 2009 poetry collection Approaching Sabbaths received a Casa de las Américas Prize in 2010, for best book in the category Caribbean Literature in English or Creole.

Her poems and short stories have appeared in the journal The Caribbean Writer. Her short stories were also included in the anthology Caribbean Voices I. Her poetry has appeared in a number of literary journals include The Malahat Review, The Trinidad and Tobago Review, The Graham House Review, the Atlanta Review and the Crab Orchard Review, and anthologies such as Sisters of Caliban and Creation Fire. Rahim was co-editor of the essay collection Beyond Borders: Cross Culturalism and the Caribbean Canon (2009).

She won the fiction category and the overall 2018 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, awarded at the NGC Bocas Lit Fest, for her 2017 book Curfew Chronicles.

• Between the Fence and the Forest, poetry (2002), ISBN 9781900715270
• Songster and Other Stories, short stories (2007), ISBN 9781845230487
• Approaching Sabbaths, poetry (2009), ISBN 9781845231156
• Ground Level, poetry (2014), ISBN 9781845232054
• Curfew Chronicles (2017), ISBN 9781845233624

• 1992: Writers Union of Trinidad and Tobago Writer of the Year Award for Mothers Are Not The Only Linguists
• 1993: New Voices Award of Merit for outstanding contributions to New Voices journal
• 1996: Gulf Insurance Writers Scholarship to attend the Caribbean Writers Summer Institute, University of Miami; ;
• 2010: Casa de las Américas Prize for Approaching Sabbaths
• 2018: OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature for Curfew Chronicles.