Keith Jardim is from Port of Spain, Trinidad. His writing has appeared in many publications, including Denver Quarterly, Mississippi Review, Kyk-Over-Al, Wasafiri, The Antigonish Review, Moving Worlds: A Journal of Transcultural Writings, Southeast Asian Review of English, The Haunted Tropics: Caribbean Ghost Stories, Seepersad & Sons: Naipaulian Synergies, Short Story. His first book, Near Open Water, was a semifinalist for the 2012 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature; later that year, it was included on World Literature Today’s Nota Bene list, among other honours. His second book, Dreams of the Jungle and Sea, is due out in 2025. He has fiction forthcoming in War, Literature & the Arts (USA) and Connecting Worlds: Ibero-Caribbean Narratives and Cross-Cultural Diasporas.