She is the author of novels both for young people and adults, and her fiction and poetry have been published widely, including in Lightspeed,[7] Wasafiri, sx salon, Susumba, Moko,[8] past simple,[9] and About Place Journal.
[4] Allen-Agostini's ambition to be a writer began early, and her 1991 win of a national schools poetry competition was the impetus for her to self-publish a book of poems called Something to Say in 1992.
[13] In 2001 an Alfred Friendly Press Fellowship enabled her to spend five months at The Washington Post, before returning to work in various capacities at the Trinidad Guardian until 2010.
[15] Her Young Adult science-fiction book, The Chalice Project, was published in 2008, and in the same year she co-edited and contributed to the crime anthology Trinidad Noir.
[19] Also in 2013 she was shortlisted for the Hollick Arvon Prize for emerging Caribbean writers[20] and was the 2014 Dame Hilda Bynoe writer-in-residence at St George's University in Grenada.
"[33] The review in Scroll.in concluded: "The Bread the Devil Knead is a force and Lisa Allen-Agostini has set the standards very high for not just women’s writing, but global literary fiction.