Lemn Sissay

May 21, 1967 — Higher End, Orrell, United Kingdom

Lemn Sissay MBE is an English author and broadcaster. Sissay was the official poet of the 2012 London Olympics, has been chancellor of the University of Manchester since 2015, and joined the Foundling Museum's board of trustees two years later, having previously been appointed one of the museum's fellows.