Romalyn Ante

Romalyn Ante is an award-winning Filipino-born, Wolverhampton-based poet, translator, editor and essayist. She is co-founding editor of harana poetry, an online magazine for poets writing in English as a second or parallel language, and her accolades include the Poetry London Prize, Manchester Poetry Prize, Society of Author’s Foundation Award, Developing Your Creative Practice, Creative Future Literary Award, amongst others. Apart from being a writer, she also works full-time as a nurse practitioner, specialising in providing different psychotherapeutic treatments. Romalyn Ante is a recipient of the 2021 Jerwood Compton Poetry Fellowship, a prize which champions the UK’s leading new poetry voices.   Photos courtesy of Jerwood Arts.