Adedayo Agarau

Adedayo Agarau’s debut collection, The Years of Blood (Fordham University Press, 2025), won the 2023–24 Poetic Justice Institute Editor’s Prize for BIPOC Writers. He is a Wallace Stegner Fellow, a Cave Canem Fellow, and a 2024 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship finalist. He is the editor in chief of Agbowó Magazine: A Journal of African Literature and Art and a poetry reviews editor for The Rumpus. He is the author of the chapbooks Origin of Name (African Poetry Book Fund, 2020) and The Arrival of Rain (Vegetarian Alcoholic Press, 2020).