Romeo_Oriogun

Romeo Oriogun

Romeo Oriogun

Nigerian poet

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.

References

  1. [1]
    Oriogun, Romeo (2023). The Gathering of Bastards. U of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-1-4962-3403-2.
  2. [2]
    Oriogun, Romeo (2020-03-01). Sacrament of Bodies. U of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-1-4962-1964-0.
  3. [3]
    "Brunel International African Poetry Prize Awarded to Nigeria's Romeo Oriogun". www.brunel.ac.uk.
  4. [4]
    "Current Finalists". Lambda Literary. Archived from the original on 2022-06-13. Retrieved 2021-12-23.
  5. [5]
    "Colloquium with Oluwasegun Romeo Oriogun". africa.harvard.edu.
  6. [6]
    "Announcing the 2018-2019 Fellows".
  7. [7]
    Foundation, Poetry (22 December 2021). "Coming Out by Romeo Oriogun". Poetry Foundation.
  8. [8]
    Weddell, Cecilia. "Before Your Mama Knew Us as Light". Harvard Review.
  9. [9]
    "American Poetry Review - Romeo Oriogun - "A Brief History of Becoming"". American Poetry Review.
  10. [10]
    Oriogun, Romeo (5 September 2019). "The Niger Sings of Blood by Romeo Oriogun". www.narrativemagazine.com.
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