Anita Barton-Williams is a writer, researcher and translator. She is the mother and father of Heaux Noire: a creative platform and organisation that worked to amplify the work of Black and Brown womxn artists between September 2015- July 2020. A former Roundhouse Resident Artist, Barbican Young Poet alumna, and member of Octavia Poetry Collective.

She is passionate about translation particularly the translation of Caribbean literature (French into English and English into French).

In January 2022 she founded BLKTRNET: The Black Translators Network, a digital space that aims to support, promote and uplift the voices of Black Translators across the globe.