Adedayo Agarau

Adedayo Agarau (he/him) is the author of the chapbooks Origin of Names (African Poetry Book Fund, 2020), The Arrival of Rain (Vegetarian Alcoholic Press, 2020), and the self-published For Boys Who Went (Authorpedia, 2016). His works have been shortlisted for the 2024 Wales International Poetry Prize and the 2022 Brunel Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the 2023 Sillerman First Book Prize. He is the editor-in-chief of Agbowó magazine and a poetry reviews editor for The Rumpus. Agarau’s forthcoming debut collection, The Years of Blood, won a Poetic Justice Institute Editor’s Prize for BIPOC Writers and will be published by Fordham University Press in the fall of 2025. He is a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and a Cave Canem Fellow.