Ruth Awolola

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Associate Artist

Ruth Awolola is a British born Nigerian Jamaican poet, theatremaker, workshop facilitator and youth worker currently based in Manchester.

She writes for a variety of different audiences including poetry for children and young people and has performed her work across the country. Her poetry first featured in Rising Stars: New Young Voices in Poetry (Otter-Barry Press, 2017) and has gone on to feature in several anthologies. She is a Roundhouse Resident Artist and the Learning Officer at Manchester Poetry Library at Manchester Metropolitan University.