Adedayo Agarau

Adedayo is a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, a Cave Canem Fellow, and a recipient of the 2022 Stanley Awards for International Research at the University of Iowa. He obtained his MFA at the Iowa Writers' Workshop '23. His poems have been featured in  Poetry Magazine, Poetry Society of America, World Literature Today, and elsewhere. He is a finalist of the 2023 Sillerman First Book Prize and author of the chapbooks Origin of Names, Akashic Books (African Poetry Book Fund) 2020, and The Arrival of Rain, Vegetarian Alcoholic Press 2020. Adedayo is the Editor-in-Chief at Agbowó: An African magazine of literature and art.