Lucy Evans is Associate Professor in Postcolonial Literature at the University of Leicester, UK. Her current research focuses on crime fiction and representations of crime in the Caribbean. She is also working with Caribbean-based researchers and creative practitioners to develop strategies for using spoken word poetry and theatre in gender-based violence prevention initiatives. She is the author of Communities in Contemporary Anglophone Caribbean Short Stories (Liverpool University Press, 2014), co-editor of The Caribbean Short Story: Critical Perspectives (Peepal Tree Press, 2011), and co-editor of the journal special issue 'Representing Crime, Violence and Jamaica', Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, 22:1 (2020).