Dean Gessie is an author and poet of global renown. Among recent honours, Dean won the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award in England, a Creators of Justice Literary Award in New York, the COP26 Poetry Competition in Scotland and the UN-aligned Poetry Contest in Finland. Dean’s short story collection, Anthropocene, won an Eyelands Book Award in Greece, the Uncollected Press Prize in Maryland and the Seven Hills Literary Contest in Florida.