Queeribbean creativity

Dr. Linzey Corridon is a poet, non-fiction writer, and a literary and cultural scholar whose research interests span the fields of Caribbean studies, Black feminist studies, Queer theory and the digital humanities. A former Vanier Scholar, he received his PhD from the Department of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University. His critical and creative work centres Queeribbean (Queer Caribbean) quotidian subjectivities and challenges accepted regional and international binary logics governing popular conceptions of race, gender and sexuality. 

Under the guidance of Dr. Hyacinth Simpson at TMU, Dr. Corridon will complete his first work of autotheory titled The Problem is That We Are Alive: Essays on the Ephemera of Queeribbean Quotidians. In this work, he engages ideas and instances of ephemerality as both an ideological and a material vehicle in the production of Queeribbean political epistemologies and cultural genealogies, and demonstrates how disorderliness and waywardness across the spectrum of quotidian Queeribbean experiences provide compelling evidence of an anticolonial politics that is shaping contemporary society on a local and a global scale.

Born and raised in the Caribbean multi-island nation of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Dr. Corridon published his debut book-length poetry collection titled West of West Indian (Mawenzi House) in 2024. The book was named one of the best Canadian poetry collections of 2024 by the CBC, in addition to being named a finalist for the 2025 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature and the 2025 Caricon Prize for Literature. Beyond his book-length projects, his critical and creative writing has been published in a number of literary and scholarly journals and magazines, including Canada and Beyond, Wasafiri, Small Axe Salon, Journal of West Indian Literature and IDEAH.