Saddiq Dzukogi

Saddiq Dzukogi is a Nigerian poet and an assistant professor of English at University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is the author of Your Crib, My Qibla (Nebraska, 2021), winner of the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry and the Julie Suk Award and shortlisted for the Nigeria Prize for Literature. His poems have appeared in Poetry Magazine, Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, Narrative Magazine, Ploughshares, Guernica Magazine, Poetry London, Best American Experimental Writing Anthology, and Cincinnati Review. He has received fellowships from the Nebraska Arts Council, Mississippi Arts Commission, and Cave Canem. His new book is the epic poem Bakandamiya: An Elegy, winner of Mississippi Institute of Arts & Letters Poetry Award.