Breanne Mc Ivor was born and raised in west Trinidad. She studied English at the Universities of Cambridge and Edinburgh before returning home. She has been shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, the Glimmer Train Fiction Open, the Fish One-Page Prize and the Derek Walcott Writing Prize. In 2015, she won The Caribbean Writer's David Hough Literary Prize. Where There Are Monsters, her first short story collection, was published in 2019. In 2020, Breanne was one of twenty-five Caribbean authors and bookstagrammers involved in the #ReadCaribbean initiative, to encourage more people to read Caribbean literature. You can find her on Instagram @BreeMcIvor.