An award-winning journalist, Lisa Allen-Agostini is an editor and reporter best known for her weekly column published in the Trinidad & Tobago Guardian. Lisa is the author of the teen action-adventure novel, The Chalice Project (Macmillan Caribbean, 2008), and co-edited the crime anthology, Trinidad Noir (Akashic Books, 2008). She was shortlisted for the Hollick Arvon Prize for emerging Caribbean writers at the NGC Bocas Lit Fest in Trinidad in 2013. She founded and chairs the not-for-profit company The Allen Prize for Young Writers, an organisation dedicated to developing the talents of writers aged 12-19.