Jason Allen-Paisant is a Jamaican writer and multi-award-winning poet. He is the author of two critically acclaimed books of poetry, ‘Thinking with Trees’ and ‘Self-Portrait as Othello’, which won the UK’s two most prestigious poetry awards for 2023 – the Forward Prize and T. S. Eliot Prize respectively.
He is also a Professor of Critical Theory and Creative Writing at the University of Manchester and Associate Editor of the literary journal Callaloo. He has recently been made a Fellow of The Royal Society of Literature. Jason lives in Leeds with his partner and two children.
