Jason Allen-Paisant
Jason Allen-Paisant is a Jamaican writer and multi-award-winning poet. His debut poetry collection Thinking with Trees won the 2022 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, was shortlisted for the Michael Murphy Memorial Poetry Prize, and was an Irish Times and White Review book of the year. In 2023, Self-Portrait as Othello won the Forward Prize and T.S. Eliot Prize. His latest publication, The Possibility of Tenderness, is a work of literary nonfiction. Jason has held fellowships from the British Academy, the Leverhulme Trust, and Columbia University’s Institute for Ideas and the Imagination, among others. Currently, he is full professor of Critical Theory and Creative Writing at the University of Manchester and an associate editor of Callaloo Literary Journal. He lives in Leeds with his wife and two children.
Instagram: @jallenpaisant
Website: jasonallenpaisant.com