Monique Roffey

Monique Roffey (born 1965) is an award-winning Trinidadian-born British writer and memoirist.

Born in Port of Spain, Trinidad, in 1965, to a British father and mother of mixed Mediterranean origins, Roffey was educated at St Andrew's School in Maraval, Trinidad, and then in the UK at St Maur's Convent, and St George's College, Weybridge. She graduated with a BA in English and American Studies from the University of East Anglia in 1987 and later completed an MA and PhD in Creative Writing at Lancaster University. Between 2002 and 2006 she was a Centre Director for the Arvon Foundation and later held three posts for the Royal Literary Fund (2006–12). Roffey has taught creative writing for English PEN, the Arvon Foundation, the Writers' Lab, Skyros and on the MA in Creative and Life Writing at Goldsmiths, University of London.

She is a member of the action group CaribLit (also known as CALAG – Caribbean Literature Action Group), launched in April 2012, a 20-strong group of writers, publishers and literary activists committed to mentoring new talent and stimulating a literary publishing industry in the Caribbean region.

She has dual nationality and divides her time between London and Port of Spain.

Roffey's early body of work comprises three novels and a memoir. Sun Dog (2002), set in west London, is a magical realist tale of psychological estrangement, identity loss and subsequent individuation. The White Woman on the Green Bicycle (2009; shortlisted for the 2010 Orange Prize and the 2011 Encore Award), is the story of European ex-colonials living in Trinidad during the island's early Independence years and their subsequent process of creolisation. It was hailed by Commonwealth Prize-winner Olive Senior, who said:

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