D. M. Aderibigbe

Damilola Michael (D.M.) Aderibigbe (born 1989) is a Nigerian poet and literary scholar based in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. He is an assistant professor of creative writing in the Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi.[1]

Early life and education

Born in Lagos, Aderibigbe earned his bachelor's degree in history at the University of Lagos in 2014, after which he was admitted to the MFA program in creative writing at Boston University, where he received a Robert Pinsky Global Fellowship.[2] Upon completing his masters studies in 2017, he proceeded to Florida State University where he earned his doctorate degree in 2022, majoring in English and Creative Writing, with a minor in Global Black Literature.[3]

Career

Aderibigbe's debut poetry collection, How the End First Showed, won the 2018 Brittingham Prize in Poetry, a Florida Book Award, and was a finalist for Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poets.[4][5] He is also the author of a poetry chapbook, In Praise of Our Absent Father, selected for the New Generation African Poets Series of the African Poetry Book Fund.[6] His first full-length manuscript, My Mothers' Songs and Other Similar Songs I Learnt received a special mention in the 2015 Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets.[7][8]

Aderibigbe's poems have appeared in the African American Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Notre Dame Review, Poet Lore, The Nation, Ninth Letter, Poetry Review, Prairie Schooner, Rattle, and elsewhere, and has been featured on Verse Daily.[9][10]

Aderibigbe has won several fellowships, residencies and honours from the James Merrill House, Banff Center for the Arts, Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, Ucross Foundation, Sewanee Writers’ Conference (Walter E. Dakin Fellowship) at the University of the South, OMI International Arts Center, the Jentel Foundation, among others.[11][12][13]

References
  1. "Center for Writers Faculty | Center for Writers | The University of Southern Mississippi". www.usm.edu. Retrieved 2023-06-29.
  2. "Student Spotlight: D.M. Aderibigbe | Arts and Sciences". artsandsciences.fsu.edu. Retrieved 2023-06-29.
  3. "FSU grad student gives a voice to women in book 'How the End First Showed'". FSView. Retrieved 2023-06-29.
  4. Aderibigbe, Damilola Michael (2018). How the End First Showed. University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 978-0-299-31984-7.
  5. "Mangaliso Buzani Wins 2019 Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry". African Poetry Book Fund. Retrieved 2023-06-29.
  6. "D. M. Aderibigbe". africanpoetrybf.unl.edu. Retrieved 2023-06-29.
  7. "Mahtem Shiferraw Named Winner of 2015 Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets". African Poetry Book Fund. Retrieved 2023-06-29.
  8. Edoro, Ainehi. "Africa's Rising Literary Stars | Sudanese Poet Safia Elhillo Breaks into the Literary Scene on Her Own Terms". brittlepaper.com. Retrieved 2023-06-29.
  9. Aderibigbe, D. M. (2017-11-02). "Oedipus". ISSN 0027-8378. Retrieved 2023-06-29.
  10. Jodee, Stanley. "Q and A for All Africans - According to First - D.M. Aderibigbe". Ninth Letter. Retrieved 2023-06-29.
  11. "Merrill Fellows". James Merrill House.
  12. "Meet Our Contributors, MQR 56:3 – Michigan Quarterly Review". sites.lsa.umich.edu. Retrieved 2023-06-29.
  13. "I TRY MY BEST TO BE AS HOSTILE TO FEAR AS POSSIBLE, An Interview with D.M Aderibigbe". The Stockholm Review of Literature. 2019-03-25. Retrieved 2023-06-29.
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