Saddiq Dzukogi
Saddiq Dzukogi’s poetry collection Your Crib, My Qibla (University of Nebraska Press, 2021) was named one of the 29 best poetry collections by Oprah Daily. His chapbook Inside the Flower Room was selected by Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani for the APBF New-Generation African Poets Chapbook Series. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in POETRY, Cincinnati Review, Ploughshares, Gulf Coast, Kenyon Review, Oxford Poetry, Poetry Society of America, Poetry Wales, and other literary journals and magazines. He was a finalist for the Brunel International African Poetry Prize and a recipient of fellowships and grants from the Nebraska Arts Council, Pen America, the Obsidian Foundation, and the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, where he is a PhD student and serves as an assistant poetry editor for Prairie Schooner.