Theresa Lola is an award-winning poet. She has performed at the Jazz Cafe, Royal Albert Hall, JAZZx, and ICA. Her second poetry collection Ceremony for the Nameless was awarded the Derek Walcott Poetry Prize, while a poem from her first collection In Search of Equilibrium is studied in the UK’s GCSE syllabus. She holds an Mst in Creative Writing from University of Oxford, and was appointed the 2019/2020 Young People’s Laureate for London.