Born in Hackney, London, Raymond Antrobus holds a BA and an MA in creative writing from Goldsmiths, University of London. Deaf since childhood, he won the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry, the Rathbones Folio Prize, and the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award for his debut collection The Perseverance (Penned in the Margins, 2018). His second collection, All the Names Given (Picador, 2021), was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. He is a Cave Canem Fellow and has received a Pushcart Prize.
