O-Jeremiah Agbaakin is the author of The Sign of the Ram (Akashic, 2023), selected by Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani for the New Generation African Poets Chapbook Box set. His poems are featured/forthcoming in Kenyon Review, POETRY, Poetry Society of America, Transition, and elsewhere. He’s received scholarship and fellowship from Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Arts, Bread Loaf, Tin House, Key West Literary Seminar; and was a finalist for the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets. A graduate at the MFA program at the University of Mississippi, he’s currently a doctoral student of Creative Writing at the University of Georgia.

Website: www.ojeremiahagbaakin.com

Twitter Username: @oj_agbaakin

Publications

• Spectacle , Denver Quarterly

Awards

• Key West Literary Seminar Workshop Fellowship (2023)
• North Carolina Writers’ Network Fall Conference, Scholarship (declined)(2023)
• Prague Summer Program, Franz Kafka Fellowship, (Declined)(2021)
• Tin House Workshop, Scholarship(2021)
• Bread Loaf Environmental Writers' Conference Scholarship(2024)
• Mass MoCa Fellowship(2024)

Degrees

• Bachelor of Arts in Law from University of Ibadan (February 2018)
• Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing (Poetry) from University of Mississippi (May 2023)
• Doctoral Degree in English (Creative Writing) from University of Georgia

Genres of Interest

Creative nonfiction, Poetry