Abdulkareem Abdulkareem (he/him) is a Nigerian writer and linguist. He loves writing about everything that trembles his heart, and everything that softens it. He studied Linguistics from the University of Ilorin, Nigeria. He is a recipient of the Hill Top Creative Writing Award for Excellence, 2023. He won the University of Ilorin Students Union Writers Competition (Poetry Category) 2022. He was shortlisted for the top entries of the Nigerian Students Poetry Prize (NSPP) 2021, shortlisted for the Vallum Poetry Award, 2022 and longlisted for the Palette Poetry Previously Published Poetry Prize, 2023. 

His works appear and are forthcoming on POETRY Magazine, MIZNA, National Museum of Language, Poetry Wales, Waxwing, Nat Brut, SAND Journal, Qwerty Magazine, Uncanny Magazine, Lolwe, Southern Humanities Review, South Florida Poetry Journal, Rough Cut Press, West Trade Review,  Off Topic Publishing, Orion’s Belt, Better Than Starbucks, Aster Lit, The Write City, Poetry Column-NND, Words and Whispers, Afro Literary Magazine, The Shore Poetry, Brittle Paper, Rulerless Magazine, Lumiere Review, Claw and Blossom, Olney Magazine, FERAL, Kissing Dynamite, & elsewhere. He is starting his MFA at the University of Alabama in Fall. He is a member of the Frontiers Collective. He tweets @panini500bc Instagram: @panini_500bc