KEVIN JARED HOSEIN is a writer and science teacher from Trinidad and Tobago. He’s the author of the short story Passage, which won the 2018 Commonwealth Short Story Prize, and The Beast of Kukuyo (2018), The Repenters (2016) – which was shortlisted for the Bocas Prize and longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award – and Littletown Secrets (2013). Hungry Ghosts: A Novel (Ecco) is his most recent book.