Roger Robinson is a writer and educator who has taught and performed worldwide and an experienced workshop leader and lecturer on poetry. Roger won the 2019 TS Eliot Prize for Poetry and the 2020 RSL Ondaatje prize for A Portable Paradise. He was chosen by Decibel as one of 50 writers who have influenced the black-British writing canon. Roger has received commissions from The National Trust, London Open House, BBC, The National Portrait Gallery, V&A, INIVA, MK Gallery and Theatre Royal Stratford East where he also was associate artist.