She is a performance poet who has been performing for the past 15 years. She combines music and words to create a sound all her own. She has performed twice at The Women’s Voices Festival, Ottawa, and at events in Barbados, Venezuela, Dominican Republic, Guyana and in her home country, Trinidad & Tobago and New York. Paula has had poems published in journals and magazines such as Fireweed – Canada, Community of Poets and Pulsar – England, plus anthologies in the USA, Venezuela, and T&T. In 1999, her first book of poems, entitled Passages was published by The New Voices of T&T. In 2001, her second book Walking a Thin Line was published by Ride the Wind Publishers in Vancouver, Canada. She has also produced two poetry cds, “Afterbirth” and “Not so Soft”. In 2000, together with poet Annessa Baksh, she formed Fishink Press, producers of the 10 Sisters Show. An annual show of some of the best female poets and singer-songwriters in T&T.