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 The 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. His poetry manuscript, COLOSSUS was a finalist of the CAAPP (Centre for African American Poetics and Poetry) Book Prize, the Poetic Justice Institute Editor's Book Prize, and the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets. Education Education: MFA, (Creative Writing) University of Mississippi, 2023 LLB, (Bachelor of Laws) University of Ibadan, Nigeria, 2017 Research Research Interests: Poetry and PoeticsContemporary African Literature Black and Postcolonial Ecologies Awards, Honors and Recognitions Of note: 2026 Centre for African American Poetics and Poetry, Finalist, Autumn House Press Poetic Justice Institute Book Prize, Editor's Prize Finalist, Fordham University Press 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 for Poetry 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
