Jasmine Gardosi is the Birmingham Poet Laureate. She is a multiple slam champion, beatboxer, winner of the Out-Spoken Prize for Poetry and recent winner of the Saboteur Award for Best Spoken Word Performer. Her work exploring identity, LGBTQ issues and mental health has appeared on Button Poetry, at the Tate Modern, Glastonbury Festival, Symphony Hall, Sky Arts, PBS America and across BBC Radio.

She was recently invited by the British Embassy in Tallinn to headline Estonia’s historic, first ever queer poetry slam for Baltic Pride. Her poetry/beatbox/Celtic Dubstep show about gender identity, ‘Dancing To Music You Hate’, won the Saboteur Award for Best Spoken Word Show and its titular track was performed with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, broadcast on BBC Four.