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Celia A. Sorhaindo was born in The Commonwealth of Dominica. She migrated with her family to England in 1976, when she was 8 years old, returning home in 2005. She is co-compiler of Home Again: Stories of Migration and Return (Papillote Press, 2009), and author of poetry collections Guabancex (Papillote Press, 2020), Radical Normalisation (Carcanet Press, 2022) and ABiYA (2023).