Romeo Oriogun

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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.

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References

  1. Oriogun, Romeo (2023). The Gathering of Bastards. U of Nebraska Press. ISBN   978-1-4962-3403-2.
  2. Oriogun, Romeo (2020-03-01). Sacrament of Bodies. U of Nebraska Press. ISBN   978-1-4962-1964-0.
  3. "Brunel International African Poetry Prize Awarded to Nigeria's Romeo Oriogun". www.brunel.ac.uk.
  4. "Current Finalists". Lambda Literary. Archived from the original on 2022-06-13. Retrieved 2021-12-23.
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