Over the last decade, as global energy has become hyper-focused on the Southern Caribbean, the role and opinions of local women have too often been overlooked. In this compelling, first-of-its-kind book, lawyer-turned-writer Celeste Mohammed remedies that omission.

Mohammed is a Trinidadian whose fiction has won numerous international awards including a 2018 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize and the 2022 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Lesley University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 

A Different Energy: Women in Caribbean Oil & Gas (Words Matter Communications; December 2023) is Mohammed’s non-fiction debut. With powerful, eye-opening portraits of eight Trini, Surinamese and Guyanese women who are employed in the Caribbean oil and gas industry, Mohammed uses the breadth of her story-telling range to keep the gender conversation refreshingly candid, often humorous, and always thought-provoking.

The book’s commentary and analysis extract from the women’s stories lessons for any woman seeking to defy odds, shatter stereotypes, and forge paths in a business culture which underestimates her.