Theresa Lola is a poet, writer, and artist whose work includes two poetry collections In Search of Equilibrium and Ceremony for the Nameless. Lola held her debut visual poetry exhibition at Bermondsey Project Space in 2023, and has also held poetry residencies at Wellcome Collection and Bethlem Museum of the Mind. She contributed to the National Gallery’s immersive exhibition Sensing the Unseen, and hosted the BBC Radio 4 audio documentary Poems at Dusk. She holds an Mst in Creative Writing from the University of Oxford. From 2019–2020, Lola served as Young People’s Laureate for London.