Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw (born 1964)[1] is a Trinidadian writer and academic who is a professor of French literature and creative writing at the University of the West Indies (UWI).
[5] She has co-edited several books and has written scholarly essays and articles particularly on Francophone Caribbean literature.
The Caribbean Review of Books noted of Walcott-Hackshaw's stories: "...the fact that she presents characters who are at once insiders and outsiders makes for a complex and interesting portrait of class and race in contemporary Trinidadian society.
[8] Arnold Rampersad described the book as "richly entertaining", and said: "Walcott-Hackshaw offers a vigorous, at times sizzling, prose that is grounded in local rhythms and allusions to the culture that is at once both the object of her love and also her main target.
"[9] She has published book reviews and creative writing in such journals as The Caribbean Review of Books and Small Axe,[10][11] and her short stories have been widely translated as well as anthologized, including in Trinidad Noir: The Classics, edited by Earl Lovelace and Robert Antoni (2017),[12] and New Daughters of Africa, edited by Margaret Busby (2019).