Romalyn Ante is a British poet, essayist, and editor. She grew up in the Philippines and migrated to her second home, Wolverhampton, at sixteen. She is co-founding editor of harana poetry, a magazine for poets who write in English as a second or parallel language, and the founder of Tsaá with Roma, an online interview series with poets and other creatives. Her poetry collection is Antiemetic for Homesickness, was published in 2020 and she was awarded a Jerwood Compton Poetry Fellowship in 2021.
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