Dr Anthony Joseph, F.R.S.L., is an award-winning Trinidad-born poet, novelist, academic, and musician.

His 2022 poetry collection, Sonnets for Albert, won the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry 2022 and the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Poetry.

He is the author of five poetry collections and three novels. His 2018 novel, Kitch: A Fictional Biography of a Calypso Icon, was shortlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Prize, the Royal Society of Literature's Encore Award, and the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Fiction.

As a musician, he has released nine critically acclaimed albums. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Lecturer in Creative Writing at King's College London.

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