Arvin Ramgoolam, born in Trinidad and Tobago, is a fiction writer and bookstore owner from Crested Butte, Colorado.
While in residence at MacDowell he primarily worked on A New West, a novel about family grief, public lands, wildfires, ghosts, gods, and belonging that unsettles the modern American West. Arvin also worked on a short story titled, “Tapes,” a coming of age story about teenage West Indian boys and their love for the band Nirvana. He is the second recipient of the One Story Adina Talve-Goodman Fellowship. Work will continue on his novel in 2022 as writer-in-residence at Ernest Hemingway's home in Ketchum, Idaho with support from Writing by Writers.
Portrait by Nathan Bilow
