Athol Williams is a South African poet and social philosopher. He has published three poetry collections, the most recent, Bumper Cars and edited a poetry collection at Harvard. He was awarded the Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Award in 2015 and his poems have been published in New Contrast, New Coin, Clare Market Review and Popshot. He has written two children's books which have been distributed to 30,000 children through Read to Rise, the NGO he founded to promote youth literacy. Athol holds five degrees including masters from Harvard, MIT and LSE, and is currently studying Political Philosophy at Oxford University.