Lydia Collins is a writer and sexual health educator with a focus on HIV prevention in African, Caribbean and Black (ACB) communities, and decolonial consent education. Lydia is the author of three self-published chapbooks of poetry. She released Angry. Black. Woman. in January 2019, To Everyone We’ve Ever Been, in September 2020, and In Transit in February 2021.

Her writing style is somewhere between Toni Morrison and Tupac; blending artistic genres of literature and music to express herself. Lydia pulls much inspiration from Roxane Gay, Kiese Laymon, and Claudia Rankine. Her writing has been equally shaped by some of her favourite musical geniuses including Wu-Tang Clan, Jimi Hendrix, Bikini Kill, and Crime Mob’s hit anthem Knuck If You Buck.