Okwudili Nebeolisa | |
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 Okwudili Nebeolisa in 2018 | |
| Born | Okwudili Nebeolisa Nebeolisa 1993 (age 31–32) |
| Education | Federal University of Technology, Minna (B. Eng) Iowa Writers' Workshop (MFA) |
| Website | Official website |
Okwudili Nebeolisa (born 1993 in Kaduna) [1] is a Nigerian poet. [2]
Nebeolisa is the author of Terminal Maladies, [3] [4] winner of the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics Prize, [5] and a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry, and the Hurston/ Wright Legacy Award. The poetry collection, which explores the author's relationship with his mother during her battle with cancer, received glowing reviews from Publishers Weekly, Shelf Awareness, and Southeast Review. [6] [7] [8] The collection was also included in Open Country Mag's Notable Books of 2024 [9] and Afrocritik's Notable Books from Africa in 2024 [10] .
Nebeolisa earned an undergraduate degree in chemical engineering from Federal University of Technology, Minna. [11] He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he won the Prairie Lights Prize for Fiction. He is currently studying fiction at the University of Minnesota, where he won the Gesell Award for Excellence in Poetry. His poems have been published by Beloit Poetry Journal, [12] The Cincinnati Review, Image, The New England Review, POETRY, Sewanee Review, Shenandoah, The Southern Review, and Threepenny Review. His fiction has appeared in Evergreen Review , [13] while his autobiographical essays have appeared in Catapult and Commonwealth Writers. [14] [15] He is currently the poetry editor of Post RoadMagazine [16] .
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