Professor Jason Allen-Paisant

Jason Allen-Paisant DPhil (Oxon), FRSL, is Professor of Critical Theory and Creative Writing at the University of Manchester. A poet and writer from Jamaica, Allen-Paisant makes work that grapples with issues of living, sensing, and loving in the aftermath of colonial and ecological rupture. His second poetry collection, Self-Portrait as Othello, won the Forward Prize for Best 

Collection and the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2023. He is also the author of the philosophical treatise Engagements with Aimé Césaire. A book-length poem, SNOW, is forthcoming with Penguin in 2027. He has received fellowships from institutions such as the Leverhulme Trust, the British Academy, the University of East Anglia, and Columbia University’s Institute for Ideas and Imagination.