Gbenga Adesina is a Nigerian poet and essayist. He received his MFA from New York University, where he was mentored by Yusef Komunyakaa and served as a Goldwater Fellow. He has received support from the Fine Arts Work Center, Poets House, Callaloo at Oxford, and Colgate University, where he was an Olive B. O’Connor Fellow. He won the 2020 Narrative Prize. His work is published in or forthcoming from Harvard Review, Prairie Schooner, Brittle Paper, The Yale Review, The New York Times, and others.