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 (the first openly queer writer to win)[3] for his collection Nomad[4] and was a finalist for the 2020 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry[5] and The Future Awards African Prize for Literature. He has received fellowships and support from Ebedi International Writers Residency, Harvard University,[6] Hutchins Center for African and African American Research,[7] Oregon Institute for Creative Research, and the IIE- Artist Protection Fund. His poems have appeared in Poetry Foundation,[8] Harvard Review,[9] American Poetry Review,[10] Narrative Magazine.[11] Romeo received his MFA in creative writing from the Iowa Writers Workshop in 2020. Romeo is an Assistant Professor at Florida Atlantic University.

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. ^ Esomnofu, Emmanuel (2022-10-15). "Romeo Oriogun Is the First Openly Queer Writer to Win the Nigeria Prize for Literature". Open Country Mag. Retrieved 2024-08-29.
  4. ^ "Brunel International African Poetry Prize Awarded to Nigeria's Romeo Oriogun". www.brunel.ac.uk.
  5. ^ "Current Finalists". Lambda Literary. Archived from the original on 2022-06-13. Retrieved 2021-12-23.
  6. ^ "Colloquium with Oluwasegun Romeo Oriogun". africa.harvard.edu.
  7. ^ "Announcing the 2018-2019 Fellows".
  8. ^ Foundation, Poetry (22 December 2021). "Coming Out by Romeo Oriogun". Poetry Foundation.
  9. ^ Weddell, Cecilia. "Before Your Mama Knew Us as Light". Harvard Review.
  10. ^ "American Poetry Review - Romeo Oriogun - "A Brief History of Becoming"". American Poetry Review.
  11. ^ Oriogun, Romeo (5 September 2019). "The Niger Sings of Blood by Romeo Oriogun". www.narrativemagazine.com.