Ayanna Lloyd Banwo, photographed at home in South London. Ayanna Lloyd Banwo is a writer from Trinidad & Tobago and a graduate of the University of East Anglia Creative Writing MA programme, and is now a postgraduate researcher in Creative-Critical Writing at UEA. She has contributed to the University of Leicester and her work has been published in The Caribbean Writer, Moko Magazine, Small Axe, Poui, PREE, Callaloo and Anomaly. When We Were Birds is her first novel