Akilah aka Kiki is a Jamaican freelance literary and film critic, beta reader, and editor living in the shark's mouth. She is a guest interviewer for the NGC Bocas Lit Fest Bios & Bookmarks interview series. Her literary writing is in The Book Slut, Rebel Women Lit Magazine, Inklette Magazine, The Quarterly Conversation, and the Jamaica Gleaner amongst other venues. Her film writing is in Flick Magazine and the anthology Divergent Terror: The Crossroads of Queerness and Horror (Off Limits Press).

Her current literary preoccupations are literary fiction, poetry, science fiction and fantasy, and nonfiction with a focus on anything queer and Caribbean. Her recent film slate is horrific and queer.