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As a child, Romalyn Ante was 'a left behind' after her mother moved abroad to work as a nurse. As an adult Romalyn followed in her mother's footsteps and became a nurse, and also a poet. In this reading Romalyn shares her experience as a nurse and as a migrant worker in the NHS. Romalyn is a Filipino-British, Wolverhampton-based poet, editor, and author. She is co-founding editor of harana poetry, a magazine for poets who write in English as a second or parallel language, and founder of Tsaá with Roma, an online interview series with poets and other creatives. Her debut collection is Antiemetic for Homesickness (Chatto & Windus). She was recently awarded the Jerwood Compton Poetry Fellowship 2021/22. Apart from being a writer, she also works full-time as a nurse practitioner, specializing in providing different psychotherapeutic treatments.

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