Ingrid Persaud

Ingrid Persaud is a Trinidadian writer, artist and former legal academic living in London. Her debut Love After Love, (Faber 2020) won the Costa First Novel Award, Author’s Club First Novel Award and the Indie Book Award for Fiction. She has also won the BBC National Short Story Award and the Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Her second novel, The Lost Love Songs (Faber) was published in 2024. Persaud is Writer in Residence at the University of the West Indies, 2025.

Ingrid will be working on her third novel which follows two women, both descendants of Indian indentured laborers, one Trinidadian and the other Surinamese as they confront both British and Dutch indentured history and their own sense of belonging. It is a story that explores themes of social justice, poverty, property and migration. Blending fiction with archival research and personal family history, this story reclaims the voices of historically marginalized women.