Jason Allen-Paisant

My writing explores embodied experience in the context of Afro-diasporic history. My critically acclaimed collection, Thinking with Trees was a 2021 Irish Times Poetry Book of the Year and won the Poetry category of the 2022 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature. My work has  appeared in Granta, The Guardian, The Poetry Review, Callaloo, New Poetries VIII, The BBC, More Fiya: A New Collection of Black British Poetry, among other venues. I have been the recipient of a prestigious Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship for my research on poetry and theatre. I hold a Doctorate in Medieval and Modern Languages from the University of Oxford and am currently Senior Lecturer in Critical Theory and Creative Writing in the Department of English and Creative Writing at the University of Manchester. My creative non-fiction book titled The Possibility of Tenderness will be published by Hutchinson Heinemann in 2024. My work is represented by Harriet Moore at David Higham and Associates.