Yannick Marshall is a Pan-Afrikanist poet of St. Lucian and Jamaican Heritage. He has spent much of his life in the community of Rexdale in Toronto and has also lived in Jamaica, St. Lucia, and Botswana, Africa. His poems have been published in Kola Magazine, the T-Dot Griots Anthology, Ishmael Reed’s Konch Magazine, and Wasafiri. He has published a collection of poetry with Nigerian poet Yemi Aganga entitled “Old Friend, We Made This for You” which George Elliot Clarke calls “the most exciting and accomplished book of mainly Canadian poetry you will read (and feel) for years.” Yannick holds a B.A. in Political Science and Caribbean Studies from the University of Toronto.