Jason Allen-Paisant is a Jamaican poet and essayist whose work explores issues at the intersection of landscape, time, history, and the Black body. His most recent works reflect on the complex meanings of nature in Black life. His collection, Thinking with Trees (Carcanet Press, 2021) has been described as ‘an expansive, fracturing, subversive book’ (The Irish Times). His poetry and creative non-fiction have appeared in Granta, The Guardian, The Poetry Review, Callaloo, PN Review, Prospections, The BBC, and other venues, and has been the recipient of a prestigious Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship. Jason holds a Doctorate in Medieval and Modern Languages from the University of Oxford and now works as a Lecturer in Poetry and Decolonial Thought at the University of Leeds. He is currently developing a nonfiction book entitled Primitive Child: On Blackness, Landscape, and Reclaiming Time.