Raymond Antrobus FRSL is the author of the poetry collection The Perseverance. Born in London to an English mother and Jamaican father, Antrobus was awarded the 2017 Geoffrey Dearmer Prize, judged by Ocean Vuong, as well as the 2019 Sunday Times/University of Warwick Young Writer of the Year Award. His second full-length collection of poems, All The Names Given, is forthcoming from Tin House and Picador in 2021. He is currently based between London and Oklahoma City.