Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto is a Lecturer of English Language and Literature, Nnamdi Azikiwe University. His areas of interest include Post Colonial Literatures, African literature, Poetry and Comparative Literatures. He grew up grew up between Germany and Nigeria. He has a chapbook, The Teenager Who Became My Mother (Sevhage Publishers, 2020). He became a runner-up for the Etisalat Prize for Literature for flash fiction in 2014. He won the Castello di Duino Poesia Prize for an unpublished poem in 2018, which took him to Italy. He was the recipient of New Hampshire Institute of Art’s 2018 Writing Award and a 2018 scholarship to their MFA Program in Writing. In 2019, he was the winner of the Sevhage/Angya Poetry Prize and second runner-up in the 5th Singapore Poetry Contest. He won the first prize in the Creators of Justice Literary Award, poetry category, organized by the International Human Rights Art Festival in New York in 2020. His works have appeared in Lunaris Review, AFREADA, Poet Lore, Rush Magazine, Frontier Poetry, Palette Poetry, The Malahat Review, Southword Journal, Vallum Magazine, Mud Season Review, Salamander Magazine, Strange Horizons, One, Ake Review, Crannóg Magazine, The Question Marker, and elsewhere.

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