Romalyn Ante MKT

Romalyn Ante FRSL is a Filipino-British poet, author, and editor.

 

She was born and bred in Lipa, Philippines and migrated to the UK when she was sixteen. Her debut collection, Antiemetic for Homesickness (Chatto, 2020), was shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize and longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize. Her second collection, AGIMAT (Chatto, 2024), was Poetry Book Society Recommendation and The Observer Poetry Book of the Month.

 

She founded Tsaá with Roma, a creative interview series and workshops in 2021, and is the co-founding editor of harana poetry, a magazine for poets who write in English as a second or parallel language.

 

She was awarded the Jerwood Compton Poetry Fellowship in 2021-2022, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2023, and sits on the editorial board for Poetry London magazine.

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She has judged international poetry competitions such as the Poetry London Prize, the Manchester Poetry Prize, and the National Poetry Competition.

 

She also won the Poetry London Prize 2018, the Manchester Poetry Prize 2017, the Society of Author's Foundation Award, Developing Your Creative Practice, and the Creative Future Literary Award 2017. Her poetry pamphlet, Rice & Rain (V Pres), won the 2018 Saboteur Awards for Best Poetry Pamphlet.

 

Her work has been featured in BBC World News, TEDxNHS, World Literature Today, BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 3 The Verb, Harper's Bazaar, Vogue UK, Southbank Center, Book Week Scotland, Birmingham Literature Festival, Verve Poetry Festival, and others. 

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