Shakirah Bourne is a Barbadian author and filmmaker. Her stories have been featured in several literary journals, and she was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize in 2019. Her self-published collection of short fiction, In Time of Need, won the Governor General’s Award for Excellence in Literary Fiction, and her middle grade fantasy, Josephine Against the Sea, was published by Scholastic in 2021. www.shakirahbourne.com/ @shakirahwrites