Romeo Oriogun

Oluwasegun Romeo Oriogun is a Nigerian poet and essay writer. He wrote the books The Gathering of Bastards (2023), Sacrament of Bodies (2020), and three small booklets called chapbooks. He won the 2017 Brunel University African Poetry Prize and the 2022 Nigeria Prize for Literature  for his poetry collection Nomad. He was also a finalist for the 2020 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry and The Future Awards African Prize for Literature. He has received fellowships and support from places like Ebedi International Writers Residency, Harvard University, the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, Oregon Institute for Creative Research, and the IIE-Artist Protection Fund. His poems have been published in Poetry Foundation, Harvard Review, American Poetry Review,  and Narrative Magazine. Romeo earned his MFA in creative writing from the Iowa Writers Workshop in 2020 and is now an assistant professor at Florida Atlantic University. 

 Bibliography 
• Gathering Of Bastards

• Sacraments Of Bodies  

• Nomad  

 References 

Category:Living people
Category:Nigerian poets
Category:Nigerian LGBT people

Category:Essayists