Romeo Oriogun
Romeo Oriogun is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing and the author of Sacrament of Bodies (2020), Nomad (2021), and The Gathering of Bastards (2023). A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, he has been recognized with several awards, including the Nigeria Prize for Literature, the Alice Fay Di Castagnola Prize, The Julie Suk Award, and The Nebraska Book Award for Poetry. He has also been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry.
In addition to his literary achievements, Oriogun was an Innovation Fellow at Iowa State University and has received fellowships from the University of Iowa, Harvard University's Department of English, the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, and the IIE-Artist Protection Fund. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, American Poetry Review, The Nation, and other journals. He has also served as a juror for the Neustadt International Prize for Literature.