O-Jeremiah (Oluwatoyosi) Agbaakin

O-Jeremiah Agbaakin is the author of The Sign of the Ram (APBF/Akashic Books, 2023), selected by Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani for the New Generation African Poets Chapbook series. His poems and reviews are published/forthcoming in Poetry Review (UK), Kenyon Review, POETRY Magazine, Poetry Daily, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. A  member of the Unserious Collective, he’s the recipient of John Lewis Grant for poetry and the Fine Art Work Center scholarship from Georgia Writers Association, as well as fellowship and support from Good Hart Artist Residency, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, Bread Loaf, Key West Literary Seminar, and Tin House; and was a finalist for the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets. He is a doctoral student of Creative Writing and Literature at University of Georgia where he’s won an Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, a Graduate Research Award from the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, among other honors.