Caribbean & Diaspora Storytelling
The Roster
Caribbean & Diaspora Authors
Maroon House Press publishes across genres on purpose. A reading life is not one genre deep, and neither is a culture. These are the writers who carry the list. Why so many names? The pen names of Maroon House Press, explained.
The writers on the Maroon House list
Lorna Phillips
Literary Fiction
Literary fiction drawn from Caribbean memory and the women who carry it. Land, ancestry and the records that do not hold — Provision Ground in Hanover, Swift River in Portland Parish.
2 titles →
Nikki Woods
Literary Fiction & Nonfiction
Founder and publisher of Maroon House Press. Writes Jamaican folklore-driven fiction, and nonfiction on over-functioning and recovery.
9 titles →
L.J. Porter
Literary Fiction & Mystery
Quiet, interior fiction about faith, complicity, and what a congregation agrees not to say out loud.
1 title →
J. Ellen Sussex
Diasporic Literary Fiction
British-born writer of Jamaican descent, excavating the silences that empire and family leave behind.
1 title →
Rae Baptiste
Literary Fiction
Character-driven fiction about Black men, interior life, and the distance between coping and healing.
1 title →
Elle Woodfield
Speculative Thriller
Chicago-set literary suspense where the danger is real, the humanity is realer, and easy answers never survive the first chapter.
1 title →
Miles Bishop
Crime & Mystery
The Eli Mercer series. Procedural crime fiction set where the church and the city keep each other’s secrets.
1 title →
Miko Gray
Caribbean Gothic Horror · Young Adult
Ghost stories rooted in Jamaican duppy folklore, told in real teen voices. Atmospheric and fast, scary without splatter, and there is always a leftover shadow.
1 title →
Icilda Morant
Caribbean Ghost Stories · Adult
Ghost stories where the dead are owed something and the living have run out of time to pay. The Barrel is horror for adults, rooted in Jamaican duppy tradition.
1 title →
Nia Foxx
Paranormal Romance
The Black Hollow series. Why-choose wolf shifter and witch romance, built on pack bonds and mirror-realm magic.
4 titles →
Zhade
Paranormal Romance
The Claimed trilogy. Elemental bonds, water spirits, and desire that arrives as a summons.
3 titles →
Chasity Rivers
Literary Erotica
Nobody Need Know and The Haven trilogy. Erotic fiction centered on desire, power, healing, and reclamation.
4 titles →
Isaiah Cole
Literary Erotica
The Attention series. Restraint, attention, and everything two people decline to say directly.
2 titles →
Christian Ruff
Literary Fantasy
A Las Vegas carpenter whose debut novel, Tolipothy: The Root Awakens, written with Nikki Woods, began as a way to coax his wife back to her art.
1 title →Submissions
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