Lisa Allen-Agostini is a writer, editor and stand-up comedian from Trinidad and Tobago. The Bread the Devil Knead is her first adult novel. She is the author of a poetry collection, Swallowing the Sky, as well as two Young Adult novels, The Chalice Project and Home Home, winner of a CODE Burt Award for Caribbean Young Adult Literature. She is the co-editor of an anthology Trinidad Noir, and writes and performs stand-up comedy as ‘Just Lisa’ with her company FemCom TT.
Author photograph © Paula Obé