Amílcar Peter Sanatan is a PhD. candidate in Cultural Studies at The University of the West
Indies, St. Augustine Campus. His research examines the role of urban development and
slum clearance policy in national development.
His poetry and essays, written in English and French, have appeared in Acalabash,
BIM Magazine, Caribbean Review of Gender Studies, Caribbean Quarterly, The Caribbean
Writer, Cordite Poetry Review, Gutter, Interviewing the Caribbean, Lolwe, Magma,
Moko Magazine, PREE Lit, Sargasso, Sinking City and Tout Moun: Caribbean Journal of
Cultural Studies. He has performed spoken word poetry and coordinated open mics in
Trinidad and Tobago for over a decade.
Sanatan is an alumnus of the Obsidian Foundation’s Writers’ Retreat (United Kingdom,
2020) and the Cropper Foundation’s Caribbean Creative Writers’ Residential Workshop
(Trinidad and Tobago, 2019). In 2020, he was shortlisted for the Johnson and Amoy Achong
Prize for Caribbean Writers for creative non-fiction writing.
As an activist, Sanatan has constructed spaces for youth and student leadership in the
Caribbean and Americas region, particularly in the areas of the gender and social justice, the
creative arts and the political development of youth and students. He continues to advocate
for youth mainstreaming and the total transformation of decision-making power to promote
the collective aspirations and priorities of youth in all areas of development.