Originally from the West Side of Chicago, Olatunde Osinaike is a Nigerian-American poet and software developer. He is the author of Tender Headed (Akashic, 2023), selected by Camille Rankine as winner of the 2022 National Poetry Series, in addition to the chapbooks Speech Therapy (TAR Chapbook Series) and The New Knew (Thirty West). His first full-length collection was also runner up for the 2022 Cave Canem Poetry Prize and finalist for the 2021 Alice James Award and 2021 CAAPP Book Prize.