Sarah Venable (second from left) and Sonia Williams (second from right) and friends: celebrating the livity.  Photo Copyright © 2024 by Sarah Venable. 

SONIA WILLIAMS was the hyphen queen. As poet-writer-actor-director-mentor-speaker-educator-scholar, she lit up spaces across the Caribbean community. But as much as those hyphens trace the organic shape of her creative life, they also slashed it into parcels.