Keith Jardim

Keith Jardim is from Port of Spain, Trinidad. His stories and essays have appeared in many publications in the USA, the UK, Canada, Southeast Asia, and the Caribbean. Jardim’s first book, Near Open Water: Stories, was a semifinalist for the 2012 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature; later that year, it appeared on World Literature Today’s Nota Bene List. He has fiction forthcoming in Diaspora/Diasporas: Cross-cultural Ibero-Caribbean Texts and Contexts and War, Literature & the Arts: An International Journal of the Humanities. He is an assistant professor of English literature and writing at American University of Iraq, Baghdad.