Hussain Ahmed

Hussain Ahmed is a Nigerian poet and environmentalist. He is the author of Soliloquy with the Ghosts in Nile, a 2023 poetry award honoree by the Society of Midland Authors, and a finalist of the Luchei Prize for African Poetry. Ahmed’s second collection Blue Exodus won the 2022 Orison poetry prize. Ahmed’s poems have been featured in Poetry Magazine, Kenyon Review, American Poetry Review, Electric Lit, A Public Space and elsewhere. He holds an MFA from University of Mississippi where he was awarded The Bondurant Prize and the Barry and Susan Hannah Award. He is completing a doctoral degree in creative writing (poetry) from the University of Cincinnati.