Haynes, Joanne, fl 2019 (author, artist)
Biography
Joanne Haynes, Trinidadian educator, film-maker and published, award-winning writer, is a Commonwealth Short Story Finalist, Winner of the Derek Walcott Prize for Children’s Literature and the recipient of a Lifetime Award for Literature from the National Library of Trinidad and Tobago (NALIS). She has published three books and is currently working on her fourth and first non-fiction. She has directed, written and produced two films - The Fallen People of the Black Land - an animated short that was an official selection of the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival and the Anime Caribe Film Festival and Legends Revisited a documentary short that premiered at the Cannes Pan-African Film Festival and was an official selection of the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival. She lives in South Trinidad with her family.