Sonia created Poinciana Paper Press as an independent book publisher in 2010, creating handmade limited-edition chapbooks and artists books of Caribbean poetry, short stories, and experimental writing. Her vision was to advance the diversity of narratives and publishing modalities in The Caribbean. She now almost exclusively self publishes with her own press using multiple methods of distribution and materials.

Her full-length poetry collections Infidelities (2017), A True & Exact History: A Reading (2018) and The Best Estimation in the World (2019) can be purchased by visiting Poinciana Paper Press (#12 Park Gate Road) in Nassau, The Bahamas, or at The Current: Baha Mar Gallery & Art Center  and The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas. Print-on-demand and eBook copies can be found at various online distributors including Amazon.

To order copies of the these limited edition books with letterpress-printed covers (p.o.d. copies from Amazon are entirely digitally printed), email Sonia at sonia [at] poincianapaperpress.com.

Limited-edition chapbooks and artists books published under Poinciana Paper Press include:

Medusae (2023)

The Red Thread Cycle (2019)

A True & Exact History (2018)

Thorns/Sargassum (2017)

This Is Not a Fairtytale (2016)

Ten Recipes for Disaster (Plus VAT) (2016)

The Overall Record for Being Human (2016)

Offerings Material (2014)

Cutting Teeth/Clipping Feathers (2013)

Grow (2008)

What Becomes Us (2008)

Books published through other presses include:

Now That I Change: (This Is Not) an Interview with the Creative Arts Director (Current Books, 2018)

For purchasing inquiries, reach out to Sonia at sonia [at] poincianapaperpress.com.

Collections

Sonia’s limited-edition artist books and chapbooks can be found in the following collections and libraries:

The Alice Yard Library, Trinidad & Tobago

Baha Mar Art Collection, The Bahamas 

The Colleen Lewis Reading Room at Fresh Milk, Barbados

D’Aguilar Art Foundation, The Bahamas

Dawn Davies Collection, The Bahamas

Fleet Library, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

Indiana University Libraries, Bloomington, IN

James Madison University Special Collections, Harrisonburg VA

Luciano Benetton Collection, Italy

The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas Library, Nassau, The Bahamas

Northern Arizona University Art Museum, Flagstaff AZ

The Rare Book School at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

Scripps College Denison Library Collections, Claremont, CA

UIC Richard J. Daley Library, Chicago IL

University of Chicago Library, Chicago IL

University of Iowa Special Collections, Iowa City IA

University of Missouri Special Collections, Columbia, MO

University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries, Madison WI

Washington University Special Collections, St. Louis MO

Whitman College and Northwest Archives, Walla Walla, WA                                    

William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles, CA