Romeo Oriogun

Romeo Oriogun, a Nigerian poet and essayist, is the author of The Gathering of Bastards (University of Nebraska Press, 2023) and two other books. He is the winner of the Nigeria Prize for Literature, the Brunel International African Poetry Prize, and the Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, his poems have been translated into several languages.

Romeo Oriogun's work appears in Issue 44.1 Summer/Fall 2023.