Romeo Oriogun

Writer

Romeo Oriogun is the author of Sacrament of Bodies, Nomad, and The Gathering of Bastards. A finalist for the Lambda Award for Gay Poetry, The Future Awards Africa Prize for Literature, and the 2023 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, he is the winner of the Brunel International African Poetry Prize, the Poetry Society of America’s Alice Fay Di Castagnola Prize, and The Nigeria Prize for Literature. He has received fellowships and support from Harvard University, Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, Oregon Institute for Creative Research, the IIE-Artist Protection Fund, University of Iowa, and Iowa State University. A juror for the 2024 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, he currently works in the English department at Florida Atlantic University as an Assistant Professor of English.