Francis-Xavier Mukiibi is a poet and performer of Ugandan heritage from North London.

He is an alumnus of the Barbican Young Poets programme, the Roundhouse Poetry Collective and the Obsidian Foundation retreat.

His forthcoming debut pamphlet, Mutabani & [ ]ther Poems (Little Betty, 2025), received an Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors. He also placed Silver in the Creative Future Writers’ Award for 2024.

His poems appear with Ink Sweat & Tears, zindabad zine, Under the Radar, Propel, Magma, Poetry Wales, Poetry London, Broken Sleep Books and flipped eye publishing.

He was selected as a finalist for BBC Words First in 2020 for his poem How Much is Community, and was a Genesis Slam Grand finalist in 2022. He was a UniSlam finalist in 2021 as a performer, a UniSlam winner in 2025 as coach for the University of Leeds, and won the UniSlam Coach’s Slam in 2023 for his poem Bloody Waters III.

His self-produced short poetry film @Brookfield Lake was one of 40 films commissioned as part of the Apples and Snakes Future Voices programme, and he participated in the Apples and Snakes Word’s A Stage cohort for 2024.

He has performed his poetry on BBC Radio and iPlayer. He has featured in venues such as the Roundhouse, the Barbican Centre, the Southbank Centre and the British Museum, among others.

He has also featured in various creative arts festivals throughout the UK including Festival2Funky, Sneinton: Stirred Up, RE-ENCHANT, the Camden Inspire Festival, the Tottenham Literature Festival, the Roundhouse Last Word and Three Sixty Festival and the London Literature Festival.