Rommi Smith is a multi-award-winning poet, playwright, theatre-maker, performer, librettist and scholar. Winner of numerous prestigious residencies and commissions from institutions ranging from the British Council to the BBC, she is a three-time BBC writer-in-residence. Rommi’s writing is broadcast on many programmes and stations.

Rommi is the inaugural British Parliamentary Writer in Residence and inaugural Poet-in-Residence for Keats’ House, Hampstead. Her writing is published by BLOODAXE, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS, SEREN, SHOESTRING PRESS, ROUTE, OBERON MODERN PLAYS and PEEPAL TREE PRESS, among others. In 2018, she founded her own production company and small press: 125^TH& MIDNIGHT.