O-Jeremiah (Oluwatoyosi) Agbaakin

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PhD Candidate
Instructor of Record, First Year Writing, Creative Writing, & Multicultural Literature

O-Jeremiah Agbaakin is the author of The Sign of the Ram (Akashic Books, 2023), selected by Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani for the New Generation African Poets Chapbook series. His poems and reviews are published in Poetry Review (UK), Kenyon Review, POETRY Magazine, Poetry Daily, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. He won the Geoffrey Dearmer prize from Poetry Society (U.K.), the John Lewis grant for poetry, and the Fine Art Work Center scholarship from Georgia Writers Association. He's received additional fellowship & support from Good Hart Artist Residency, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, Bread Loaf, Tin House, and the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, University of Georgia.

Education:

MFA, (Creative Writing) University of Mississippi, 2023

LLB, (Bachelor of Laws) University of Ibadan, Nigeria, 2017

Research Interests:

Poetry and Poetics
Contemporary African Literature 
Black and Postcolonial Ecologies

Of note:

2026

  • English Graduate Awards, R. Baxter Miller Award, University of Georgia
  • English Graduate Awards, Appleby Fellowship Summer Awards, University of Georgia
  • Poetry Review (U.K.), Geoffrey Dearmer Prize for best poem, The Poetry Society
  • Office of Instruction & Center for Teaching and Learning, Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, University of Georgia

2025

  • Georgia Writers Association, John Lewis Grant
  • English Graduate Student Awards, Michael G. Moran Award, University of Georgia
  • Fine Arts Work Center Workshop, Georgia Writers Scholarship
  • Good Hart Artist Residency, Residency award

2024

  • Graduate School Awards, Alfred E. Brown Scholarship, University of Georgia
  • English Graduate Student Awards, Brown and Everett Award, University of Georgia
  • Willson Centre for Humanities and Arts, Graduate Research Award, University of Georgia
  • Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Arts Residency, Fellowship
  • Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference, Scholarship

2023

  • Key West Literary Seminar Workshop, Fellowship
Events featuring Abhijit Sarmah, Ellen Boyette, Erik Brown, O-Jeremiah (Oluwatoyosi) Agbaakin, Maxime Berclaz
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March 29, 6:00pm

The Sentimental Touring Club: Creative Writing Program Graduate Student Reading

Graduate Reading Room, Third Floor, Main Library

The Sentimental Touring Club is an annual reading series by graduate students in the Creative Writing Program. We are truly a sentimental bunch but be warned we are not miserable not miserly with our gifts! On Friday, March 29th at 6pm in the Graduate Reading Room, some of us will make you cry; some will make you laugh, but we: Abhijit, Ellen, Erik, O-Jeremiah,…

Articles Featuring O-Jeremiah (Oluwatoyosi) Agbaakin

Contact Information

ojagbaak@uga.edu
Office: 10 Park Hall

Other Information

Other Affiliations: Resume-- April 2026, The UnSerious Collective Announces 2022 Fellowship Winners

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