Lennox Raphael, a New Yorker Trinidadian, lives in Copenhagen, Denmark with his wife & daughter. A former staff writer for the East Village Other (EVO), his first play, CHE!, ran for over a year in Manhattan; and he has written & directed BLUE SOAP, WAITING FOR MICK JAGGER, and several other works for the theater. Raphael has published 5 books of poetry. He is the co-author, with Maryanne Raphael, of GARDEN OF HOPE, A MEMOIR, published by Hopewell, in 2006.