Ojo Taiye is a young Nigerian who uses poetry as a handy tool to hide his frustration with society. His poem “Elegiac” is the winner of 2019 Hart Crane Poetry Prize. His writing has appeared in or is forthcoming from Grist Journal, Fiddlehead, The Well Review, Lambda Literary, Glintmoon, Banshee, Ruminate, Savant-Garde Journal, Strange Horizon, and elsewhere.

Twitter: @ojo_poems

Ojo is a contributing author to the House of Zolo’s Journal of Speculative Literature – Volume 1 with the poem “my hands are full of nightingales leaving us.”