Kyo D'Assassin

Kyraan Gabourel
Entrepreneur, editor, author and Spokenword Poet. He was born in Belize on June 20, 1991. Since 2011, he has been writing and performing under the moniker, “Kyo D’Assassin” and has won numerous national poetry contests. He is the co-author of the book + DVD, ‘We Gat Sonting Fu Seh’ (2013).

Gabourel has participated in international festivals and poetry readings such as: II Encuentro de Poesia de San Salvador (2020), XIII Encuentro Internacional Poesia Migrantes (2020), XV Festival Internacional de Poesía de Quetzaltenango (FIPQ, 2021, 2019), & III Festival Internacional de Poesía Los Confines (FIPLC, 2019).

He is a member and co-organizer of Spokenword 501, a Belize City-based organization. His poems have been published in various anthologies in Spanish, English, and Creole, in Honduras, Guatemala and Belize.

He resides in Belize where he is currently working on his forthcoming anthology of poems and holds a B. A.  in Anthropology from Galen University.