Esiaba Okigbo

Esiaba Okigbo is a poet, digital media strategist, broadcast journalist, and spoken word artist. His poetry collection, Teaching Father How to Impregnate Women, was selected as a winner of the RL Poetry Award. His second book, Burying the Ghost of Dead Narratives, was published in collaboration with the British Council. A Rhysling Award and Pushcart Prize nominee, Esiaba was selected in 2023 to be an International Writing Program fellow at the University of Iowa. He was also a 2021 Langston Hughes Fellow at the Palm Beach Festival and Poet Laureate for the Korea Nigeria Poetry Festival.