Bio
Isaiah Adepoju is an Osogbo-born writer and cultural producer. He is passionate about writing and curating critical conversations around how African literatures interact and cross boundaries yet containing the complexes of its localities.
He is the director of three editions of the ANA-OAU Books and Art Festival. He is a fellow of Ebedi International Writing Residency, Rongo Artist Residency, and the UNDERTOW Poetry Fellowship, UK. He has also been a recipient of the Donald E Waterfall Scholarship Fund, the Lagos London Poetry Prize, and Akachi Chukwuemeka Prize for Literature. His poems have been shortlisted for the Arole Agarawu Poetry Prize and the Alpine Fellowship Poetry Prize, and longlisted for the Lemonlight Poetry Prize.
He is currently querying two novels.