Vahni (Anthony Ezekiel) Capildeo is a Trinidadian writer. They were born in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, in 1973. and educated at Oxford University where they studied English and Old Norse. Surrounded by poetry, (their father was a poet), Capildeo began writing from an early age, and began to publish poems while a student at university. “Feeling how beloved places and people may be distant from each other in time or geography, but layered and present in memory and hope, influenced all my later writing.” A prolific poet, Capildeo is the author of fifteen books, including Undraining Sea (2009), Utter (2013), and Measures of Expatriation (2016); their poetry is precise, layered, and profoundly inventive, engaging themes of place, memory, and language. They are the recipient of a Forward Prize for Best Collection and a Cholmondeley Award