Career
Her first collection of poetry was nominated for Best First Book of Poetry and was runner up for the Guyana Prize for Literature 2004. Her third collection, East of Centre, was funded by the British Arts Council and launched with several of the regions" leading writers at CARIFESTA 2008. After studying as a mature student at Hillcroft College in Britain, she went on to read for her Modern Arts degree at Kingston University and then to take her Postgraduate Certificate in Education. Elly Niland and David Dabydeen dramatised Harold Sonny Ladoo’s short novel Number Pain Like This Body – depicting the terrifying world of a family brutalised by violence, poverty and nature itself.
Number Pain Like this Body was broadcast on British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 3 in 2003.
"The Fog", a story about a sickness spreading across Malaysia, was specially commissioned for the British Broadcasting Corporation’s Commonwealth Stories season and was read by Liz Sutherland on British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4 in 2005.