Okwudili Nebeolisa


Okwudili Nebeolisa is a Nigerian poet.

Biography

Nebeolisa is the author of Terminal Maladies, winner of the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics Prize, and a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry, and the Hurston/ Wright Legacy Award. The poetry collection, which explores the author's relationship with his mother during her battle with cancer, received glowing reviews from Publishers Weekly, Shelf Awareness, and Southeast Review. The collection was also included in Open Country Mag's Notable Books of 2024 and Afrocritik's Notable Books from Africa in 2024.
Nebeolisa earned an undergraduate degree in chemical engineering from Federal University of Technology, Minna. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he won the Prairie Lights Prize for Fiction. He is currently studying fiction at the University of Minnesota, where he won the Gesell Award for Excellence in Poetry. His poems have been published by Beloit Poetry Journal, The Cincinnati Review, Image, The New England Review, POETRY, Sewanee Review, Shenandoah, The Southern Review, and Threepenny Review. His fiction has appeared in Evergreen Review, while his autobiographical essays have appeared in Catapult and Commonwealth Writers. His book review has appeared in the Georgia Review.
He is currently the poetry editor of Post Road ''Magazine''.

Published works

Terminal Maladies. Pittsburgh: Autumn House Press. 978-1-637-68094-0

Awards and honors