STEPHANIE RAMLOGAN

WRITING CARIBBEAN

Stephanie's writing career started in 2012 with her blog NoMoreFashionVictims.com (NMFV) which morphed into the first internationally accessible online store that exclusively sold Caribbean fashion brands. As a fashion stylist, she was commissioned by various magazines and blogs to add her voice to style stories and designer interviews, as well as lifestyle pieces. Bylines include Refinery29, Gal-dem and Fashion Bomb Daily.

In 2017 she began her transition from Trinidad to NYC to further a thriving career in fashion, but the move instead deepened her curiosity about Caribbean culture as a whole, and how it adapts as it moves beyond the region. Lately she writes about the implications of our "hybridity" in the diaspora, particularly with food. Stephanie is the Cultural contributor at BestDressedPlate.com and a featured contributor at Punch Magazine.

Stephanie is the winner of the Iowa Review Fiction Award, the BCLF Elizabeth Nunez Caribbean American Writer's Prize and the 2023 Cultural Literary Excellence Award by TATUCA.

She has her first novel manuscript in hand, which placed second for the First Pages Prize, judged by Edwidge Danticat,

"We get our ears wrung in school for speaking in dialect. “Broken English” they call it. As though when this English broke it didn’t sprout a genius infusion of diverse cultures into a new living vernacular."

Writing The Way We Speak: Is There Space for the “Caribbean” Writer?

Stephanie Ramlogan

WHAT THEY SAID

"The discipline of her fiction is canny, ironic, and searingly honest. Her dogged pursuit of excellence is cultivated in empathy, entrepreneurship, and zeal"

Shivanee Ramlochan; poet, arts reporter and book blogger

"NoMoreFashionVictims.com is a staple for those interested in Caribbean fashion. A smart cutting critique of the state of the fashion industry, it has been stepping on toes while winning fans."

Roslyn Carrington, Trinidad and Tobago Guardian Newspaper

"Stephanie has been instrumental in shaping the voice and brand of Les Îles, with authentic and compelling narrative on Caribbean artistic talent, bringing an intellectual, thought provoking dimension to our niche audience."

Anjeni Ramtahal, Founder or Les Îles Caribbean Art Gallery

LATEST PRESS & INTERVIEWS

Interview with Eatahfood

"Cooking for family and friends is an intrinsic part of the Trinbagonian experience that is an expression of love and care. Experience the magic of love dhal as Stephanie combines aromatic spices and protein-rich lentils in this delicious and satisfying dish. This love dhal is adapted from her grandmother's dhal recipe as well as her uncle's river dhal recipe that she now cooks for the special people in her life."

2023 CULTURAL LITERARY EXCELLENCE AWARD

from the Trinidad and Tobago United Community Association (TATUCA)

2022 IOWA REVIEW AWARD FOR FICTION

“To Kill a soucouyant”

Judge comments: “This story felt so fully realized, so absolutely accomplished, as though it had emerged in one breath from the story’s narrator, a soucouyant, who teaches us about our failures to revere the bodies of old women, our blindness to the beauty of their wrinkled skin. She teaches us, too, about the thrill and freedom of flight, in passages of such lyrical beauty that I, too, was ready to sell my soul to become a soucouyant.”