Adedayo Agarau

Adedayo Agarau’s chapbook, Origin of Names, was selected by Chris Abani and Kwame Dawes for New Generation African Poet (African Poetry Book Fund), 2020. He is a human nutritionist, documentary photographer, and author of two chapbooks, For Boys Who Went & The Arrival of Rain. Adedayo was the runner up at the Sehvage Poetry Prize in 2019. He is an Editor at IceFloe, Assistant Editor at Animal Heart Press, a Contributing Editor for Poetry at Barren Magazine. His works have appeared or are forthcoming in Agbowo, Frontier Poetry, Glass Poetry, Mineral Lit, Ghost City, Temz, and elsewhere. Adedayo curated and edited what may be the biggest poetry anthology by Nigerian poets, Memento: An Anthology of Contemporary Nigerian Poetry.