Romeo Oriogun

Oluwasegun Romeo Oriogun is a Nigerian poet and essayist. He is the author of The Gathering of Bastards (2023) and Sacrament of Bodies (2020) and three chapbooks.[1][2] He won the 2017 Brunel University African Poetry Prize and the Nigeria Prize for Literature award 2022 for his collection Nomad[3] and was a finalist for the 2020 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry[4] and The Future Awards African Prize for Literature. He has received fellowships and support from Ebedi International Writers Residency, Harvard University,[5] Hutchins Center for African and African American Research,[6] Oregon Institute for Creative Research, and the IIE- Artist Protection Fund. His poems have appeared in Poetry Foundation,[7] Harvard Review,[8] American Poetry Review,[9] Narrative Magazine.[10] Romeo received his MFA in creative writing from the Iowa Writers Workshop in 2020.