Claudine Toutoungi is a poet and playwright. She was born in Warwickshire, studied English and French at Trinity College, Oxford and has worked as an actor, a BBC radio drama producer, an English teacher, and a Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow for Newnham and Selwyn Colleges in Cambridge. Carcanet published her debut poetry collection Smoothie in 2017. This was followed by Two Tongues (2020), which won the Ledbury Munthe Poetry Prize for Second Collections. Her poetry has been translated into Spanish and her live poetry contributions to festivals include Tongue Fu, Poetry East and appearances on BBC Radio 4. Her plays for theatre include Bit Part and Slipping (Stephen Joseph Theatre), and her many audio dramas for BBC Radio 4 include Deliverers, The Inheritors and The Voice in my Ear. She lives in Cambridge.