Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw is a senior lecturer in French and Francophone literatures in the Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics at the University of the West Indies-St. Augustine. Her publications include "Border Crossings: A Trilingual Anthology of Caribbean Women Writers," coedited with Nicole Roberts; "Echoes of the Haitian Revolution 1804-2004"; and "Reinterpreting the Haitian Revolution and Its Cultural Aftershocks (1804-2004)," coedited with Martin Munro.

Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw was born in Trinidad and is Professor of French Literature and Creative Writing at the University of the West Indies. Her first collection of short stories, Four Taxis Facing North, was published in 2007 and translated into Italian and French. Her first novel, Mrs. B was published by Peepal Tree Press in 2014. Mrs B, was shortlisted for the "Best Book Fiction" in The Guyana Prize for Literature Award for 2014. Walcott-Hackshaw presently lives in the Santa Cruz Valley with her family; she has recently completed another collection of short stories and is working on a book of essays on trauma in Caribbean fiction.