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Romalyn Ante
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Romalyn Ante FRSL (born January 1989) is a Filipino-British poet, editor, and specialist nurse practitioner. She has received a number of accolades for her work, including the Manchester Poetry Prize.
Early life
Ante was born in Lipa, Batangas[1] during her hometown's fiesta of San Sebastian. Her grandfather was a shaman.[2] In 2005 at age 16, Ante joined her mother, an NHS nurse, in Wolverhampton, England.[3] After completing secondary school, Ante studied nursing and specialised in renal dialysis as well as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy,[4] graduating in 2012.[5] Ante began writing English-language poetry around 2014 and took an Arvon Foundation class in 2016.[6]
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Ante became co-founding editor of Harana Poetry and was appointed deputy editor of Ambit.[6] Her debut pamphlet Rice & Rain (V Press) received the 2018 Saboteur Award for Best Poetry Pamphlet. She also won the 2017 Manchester Poetry Prize[7] and the 2018 Poetry London Clore Prize.[8]
In 2019, Ante signed her first book deal with Chatto & Windus (a Penguin Random House imprint),[9] through which she published her debut collection titled Antiemetic for Homesickness in 2020. In the collection, the poet balances writing about her experiences working as an NHS nurse with nostalgia for her childhood in the Philippines.[10] Antiemetic for Homesickness was shortlisted for the 2021 Jhalak Prize and longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize. It was named The Observer Poetry Book of the Month and one of the best poetry books of 2020 by Irish Times.[11]
Ante spoke at the 2022 TEDxNHS event titled Reconnected[12] and introduced a selection pamphlet titled Ten Poems About Angels.[13] In 2023, Ante was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.[14]
In 2024, Ante reunited with Chatto & Windus for her second poetry collection Agimat. The collection also touches on stories from working as a nurse during the COVID-19 pandemic, this time incorporating elements from Japanese occupation in the Philippines as well as the Filipino mythological character, Mebuyan.[15]
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Personal life
As of 2022, Ante is married.[5] On the side since 2017, she has helped run a Filipino shop in Wolverhampton.[6]
Bibliography
Non-fiction
- GRIT (TBA) – memoir (working title)
Collections
- Antiemetic for Homesickness (2020)
- AGIMAT (2024)
Pamphlets
- Rice & Rain (2017)
Select contributions
- "Half-empty" in Primers Volume Three (2018)
- in The Good Journal #3 (2019)
- in State of Play: Poets of East & Southeast Asian Heritage in Conversation (2023)
Selections
- Ten Poems About Angels (2022)
Accolades
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