An English television presenter, writer and photographer, Pitts is the curator of the ENAR (European Network Against Racism) Prize-winning e-zine Afropean.com and the author of Afropean. Notes on Black Europe, which won the 2020 Jhalak Prize, the 2020 Bread and Roses Prize and the 2021 Leipzig Book Prize for European Understanding. He has written for Blues & Soul, Straight No Chaser and The Observer magazines, and has won the Decibel Penguin Prize for new writers. He studied poetry with Debjani Chatterjee and has performed solo and alongside renowned poets John Agard and Valerie Bloom at venues including the Albany Theatre, the Jazz Café, the Big Chill Festival, the Notting Hill Arts Club and the Soho Theatre. He has presented on MTV, the BBC and ITV1, and his broadcasts include a BBC Radio 4 documentary exploring black identity through the music of his father, who was a member of the soul group The Fantastics. He currently hosts Open Book for BBC Radio 4 and a podcast funded by a grant from the National Geographic Society. Pitts has contributed to outlets including The Guardian, The New Statesman, The New York Times and CondéNast Traveller. His photography has appeared on The New York Times blog and on the covers of the Journal of Postcolonial Writing and Harvard University’s Transition magazine.