ANDERSON REYNOLDS was born and raised in Vieux Fort, St. Lucia, where he now resides. He holds a Ph.D. in Food and Resource Economics from the University of Florida. Dr. Reynolds is the author of six books, including three award-winning and national best-selling books—the novels Death by Fire and The Stall Keeper and the creative nonfiction, The Struggle For Survival: an historical, political, and socioeconomic perspective of St. Lucia. Dr. Reynolds' books, blogs, lectures, and newspaper and magazine articles have established him as one of St. Lucia’s leading public intellectuals and a foremost authority on its socioeconomic history.Dr Niles is also the Managing Director of Koru Green Ltd, a firm dedicated to commercializing creative content throughout the Caribbean. Koru Green provides management, marketing and research support to creative professionals who wish to find new markets for the content they produce and/or to expand the consumption of their works within markets in which they are already present. To this end, it should be noted the company currently represents the dynamic musical band known as Freetown Collective.

He is also a published poet and has been a certified youth worker for the past 23 years. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Government (with minors in History and International Relations) from The University of West Indies and a Master’s Degree in International Law from the University of Aberdeen.