The 2012 World Poetry Slam Champion and the youngest winner of that title, Harry Baker is an English performance poet and spoken-word artist from West London. His collection The Sunshine Kid was published by Burning Eye Books in 2015. He switched from studying medicine to read mathematics with German at the University of Bristol. A TED speaker since 2014, he delivered the talk "A love poem for lonely prime numbers." He has performed internationally and has served as a poet-in-residence at the Scottish Poetry Library.
