Musa Okwonga is a writer, broadcaster and musician of Ugandan heritage. A student at Eton College, Okwonga studied law at Oxford University and then trained as a solicitor in London before leaving the legal profession to pursue a career as a writer. A sportswriter, Okwonga published two books on football before his poetry collection, Eating Roses for Dinner, was released in 2015, a culmination of ten years of poetic writings. Though Eating Roses is his only collection, Okwonga’s poems are present in other works, namely his semi-autobiographical novel, In The End, It Was All About Love (2019). In a Rumpus interview, Okwonga says, “Every poem in [In the End] begins with a sort of bleak opening and they all end with optimism. That’s deliberate. I see you, I understand you, I understand that things are difficult and I’m not going to patronise you by pretending that they aren’t. I’m here, I see you; here is a way forward.”