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Ingrid Persaud is a Trinidad-born award-winning writer, who now lives between Barbados and the United Kingdom. She won the BBC National Short Story Award in 2018, and the Commonwealth Writers Short Story Prize in 2017, with her debut effort The Sweet Sop. The story is about a Trinidadian man reunited with his father, through chocolate.

In 2020, Persaud published the novel Love After Love, set in Trinidad, and examining homophobia in a country where same-sex sexual activity was decriminalised only in 2018. She has written for the magazines Granta, Prospect and Pree.

Career
Persaud began writing only in her 40s, after having taught at King's College, London and worked as a visual artist and project manager. She was a legal academic for many years, before going on to get degrees in visual art, and then turning her hand to writing.

Education
Persaud read law at the London School of Economics, and studied fine art at Goldsmith College and Central St. Martins.