Celeste Mohammed is a Trinidadian lawyer-turned-writer. Her debut novel-in-stories, Pleasantview, is the winner of the 2022 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, and the 2022 CLMP Firecracker Award for Fiction. It was also a finalist for the UK Society of Authors McKitterick Prize 2022.
Celeste holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Lesley University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
She is the recipient of a 2018 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers, the 2019 Virginia Woolf Award for Short Fiction, and the 2017 John D Gardner Memorial Prize for Fiction.