Dominique De-Light lived in Trinidad for three years working as a carnival artist for the Callaloo company. She went to the island to learn traditional carnival arts after working for two years on Notting Hill Carnival in London. Inspired by the creativity of the islands and Trinidad's great literary tradition she began to write, producing work for Rough Guides Women Travel and a variety of Caribbean magazines.

On her return to England she gained an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia. She now works as a writer, producing short stories and scripts that have been published, broadcast and performed. She teaches travel writing and specialises in running writing groups for homeless and vulnerable adults. After facilitating the Big Issue Writing Group in Brighton for four years, Dominique became Writer in Residence at the First Base Day Centre, a place of safety for homeless adults in Brighton. She is now works three days a week as a Project Manager running an arts project at the day centre. Much of the work published in the ‘Streetlights’ section of the Big Issue magazine is produced during her writing workshops.

Dominique also teaches creative writing at BBC Southern Counties Radio, New Writing South – a regional organization for writers in the south east and Queenspark Books, a community publishers. She is a LAPIDUS mentor – providing support for those wishing to establish writing groups for therapeutic purposes. When she finds the time Dominique still writes fiction and scripts, as well as contributing to Rough Guide updates, the debate on therapeutic writing and producing educational packs on carnival.

As of yet, she has no website, though this is in the pipeline and will feature photographs of Trinidad and Tobago, including behind the scenes of carnival production. Dominique currently lives in Brighton, in a flat minutes from the sea, with her partner, Berni, their cat, Moko and their puppy, Ziggy. When her commitments allow, she loves to travel the world, eat exotic food and write stories about ordinary people with extraordinary lives