Georgio Russell

Georgio Russell is a Bahamian writer and an alumnus of the University of the West Indies, Jamaica. He is a past winner of the Peepal Tree Press Prize (2019), the Mervyn Morris Prize (2020), and The Editors' Prize for Magma Poetry (2022/23). He was shortlisted for the Frontier OPEN Prize 2022, and long-listed for the National Poetry Competition (2022) held by the Poetry Society. Russell was a featured poet for the British Council's project, Unwritten Poems: Exploring Caribbean Engagement in WW1." His work has been published in Yolk Literary Magazine, PREE magazine Frontier Poetry, The London Magazine, Magma and elsewhere. He currently lives in Brampton, Ontario, where he teaches English for Educate Academy. Some of his favourite poets include Derek Walcott, Loma Goodison, Ocean Vuong, Jane Hirshfield, and Roger Reeves.