Born in Hackney to Trinidadian parents, Roger Robinson is the critically acclaimed author of A Portable Paradise which won the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2019 and the RSL Ondaatje Prize in 2020. His most recent collection Home is Not a Place was shortlisted for the British Book Awards in 2022. He was chosen by Decibel and Arts Council England as one of 50 writers who have influenced the Black-British writing canon. He has received commissions from The National Trust, London Open House, BBC, Tate, The National Portrait Gallery, V&A, INIVA, MK Gallery and Theatre Royal Stratford East, where he was associate artist. He is an alumnus of The Complete Works, a national mentorship programme founded by Bernadine Evaristo.