Theresa Lola is a British Nigerian poet, writer, and artist. Her second poetry collection Ceremony for the Nameless won the 2025 Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry, while a poem from her debut collection In Search of Equilibrium was added to the UK’s GCSE syllabus. From 2019-2020 she served as Young People’s Laureate for London. She won the 2018 Brunel International African Poetry Prize and was longlisted for the Michael Murphy Memorial Prize. She holds an Mst in Creative Writing from University of Oxford.

Theresa’s visual poetry exhibition Who We Beans was held at Bermondsey Project Space. Interested in cross-genre work also she has 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.

Theresa has performed internationally and across the UK, including at the ICA, Royal Albert Hall, and Jazz Cafe. Previous commissions include work for Selfridges and Nest New York.

In 2025 she founded Your Envoi, a lifestyle brand using poetry inspired approached to create journals and conversation cards for mindful living.