The Left-Behind Child

Romalyn Ante FRSL is a Filipino-British poet, essayist, and editor. She was born and bred in Lipa, Philippines. She was 16 years old when her mother - a nurse in the NHS - brought the family to the UK. Her debut collection, Antiemetic for Homesickness (Chatto, 2020), was shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize and longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize. She is the co-founding editor of harana poetry , a magazine for poets who write in English as a second or parallel language. She was awarded the Jerwood Compton Poetry Fellowship in 2021-2022, sits on the editorial board for Poetry London magazine, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She lives in the West Midlands where she works as a registered NHS nurse and psychotherapist, specialising in the mental healthcare of young people.>

About the author

Romalyn Ante FRSL is a Filipino-British poet, essayist, and editor. She was born and bred in Lipa, Philippines. She was 16 years old when her mother – a nurse in the NHS – brought the family to the UK. Her debut collection, Antiemetic for Homesickness (Chatto, 2020), was shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize and longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize. She is the co-founding editor of harana poetry, a magazine for poets who write in English as a second or parallel language. She was awarded the Jerwood Compton Poetry Fellowship in 2021-2022, sits on the editorial board for Poetry London magazine, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She lives in the West Midlands where she works as a registered NHS nurse and psychotherapist, specialising in the mental healthcare of young people.

Product details

• Authors: Romalyn Ante
• Publisher: Chatto and Windus
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 02.07.2026
• EAN: 9781784746117
• ISBN: 978-1-78474-611-7
• No. of pages: 208
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Coming of Age, FICTION / Women, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Family Life / General, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Medical, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Narrative theme: displacement, exile, migration, Philippines, Early 21st century c 2000 to c 2050, Fiction-Related Items, FICTION / Own Voices, Narrative theme: Health and illness, Biographical fiction / autobiographical fiction, FICTION / Immigration, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Family life fiction / Stories about family, FICTION / Biographical & Autofiction, Narrative theme: love / relationships