“Romeo Oriogun is a hugely talented, outstanding, and urgent new voice in African poetry. His poetry is wide ranging but at its heart are deeply passionate, shocking, imaginative, complex and ultimately beautiful explorations of masculinity, sexuality and desire in a country that does not recognize LGBT rights.”
Romeo Oriogun
Romeo Oriogun is a Nigerian poet whose poems have appeared in Brittle Paper, Connotation Press, Prairie Schooner, Dissident Blog, and Expound, among other publications. His poems have been translated into Estonian, Slovenian, and Swedish, and rendered into songs in Portuguese. He is the author of the chapbooks Burnt Men (Praxis) and The Origin of Butterflies (APBF and Akashic Books). He is the winner of the 2017 Brunel International African Prize for Poetry, his manuscript My Body Is No Miracle was shortlisted for the 2017 Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, and his poem Metamorphosis was shortlisted for the inaugural Brittle Prize for Poetry. He is currently a Resident Scholar at Dunster House, an Institute of International Education Artist Protection Fund Fellow, a W.E.B. DuBois Research Institute Fellow, and the Harvard Scholars at Risk Fellow for Spring 2019.
