Alexia Tolas is a Bahamian writer whose narratives explore the intricacies of small-island life, drawing heavily from local folktales and mythology. Her writing has been featured in literary journals including MsLexia, Granta, Windrush, Adda, and The Caribbean Writer. She won the Commonwealth Short Story Regional Award for the Caribbean in 2019, shortlisted for the 2020 Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award, and in 2022, she received the Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival’s Elizabeth Nunez Award for Writer’s in the Caribbean.