Rasak Malik Gbolahan

Writer

RASAQ MALIK GBOLAHAN is a Nigerian poet, performer, translator, essayist, and an emerging DH scholar. The founding Editor-in-Chief of Agbowó, he is also a cofounder of Àtélẹwó, the first digital journal devoted to publishing literary work written in the Yorùbá language. He is the author of the poetry chapbooks No Home In This Land, selected for Chapbook Box edited by Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani, and The Other Names of Grief, published by Konya Shamsrumi. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in POETRY, Ploughshares, Kenyon Review, African American Review, Beloit, Colorado Review, Crab Orchard Review, LitHub, Michigan Quarterly Review, Minnesota Review, New Orleans Review, Prairie Schooner, Poet Lore, Rattle, Salt Hill, Spillway, Stand, Verse Daily, and elsewhere. 

He received Honourable Mention in the 2015 Best of the Net for his work published in One. In 2017, Rattle and Poet Lore nominated his poems for the Pushcart Prize. He was shortlisted for Brunel International African Poetry Prize in 2017. He was a finalist for Sillerman First Book for African Poets in 2018. His co-edited anthology, African Urban Echoes, was published in Spring 2025 by Griots Lounge, Canada.