Adedayo Agarau is an MFA student at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His manuscript The Morning The Birds Died was a finalist for the 2021 Sillerman Prize. His chapbook Origin of Names was selected for New-Generation African Poets (African Poetry Book Fund, 2020). His poems have appeared in Frontier, Lolwe, Perhappened, Boulevard and elsewhere. He curated and edited Memento: An Anthology of Contemporary Nigerian Poetry. He is a co-editor for the New International Voices series at IceFloe Press and the Editor-in-Chief at Agbowó. He is a member of the Unserious Collective. You can find him on Twitter @adedayo_agarau.