Rob Gee Author

Rob Gee qualified as a psychiatric nurse in 1994 and worked for twelve years in mental health units around the UK and Australia. Working mainly in acute psychiatry, he has also worked in child and adolescent units, drug and alcohol services, eating disorders, early psychosis intervention, dementia settings and psychiatric intensive care. As a stand-up poet, Rob has won numerous poetry slams, including the Edinburgh Slam, the Arts Council's Lit Up Slam, BBC2's Why Poetry Matters Slam and the Orlando Poetry Smackdown. He's performed at a hundred fringe festivals across the world and received over twenty awards for his solo shows. He is patron of Leicestershire Action for Mental Health Project (LAMP) and lead artist for the Comedy Asylum: comedy shows written and performed by people receiving mental health treatment. Rob returned to nursing during the COVID-19 pandemic.