Contact Between the Lines

Romeo Oriogun is a Nigerian poet, essayist, and author of Sacrament of Bodies, Nomad, The Gathering of Bastards, and three chapbooks. He is the winner of the Nigeria Prize for Literature, the Alice Fay Di Castagnola Prize, and the Brunel International African Poetry Prize. A finalist for the Lambda Prize for Gay Poetry, his poems have appeared in Poetry, The New Yorker, The Nation, Harvard Review, American Poetry Review, Poetry London, The Poetry Review, Narrative Magazine, The Common, and others. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, his poems have been translated into several languages.