Ernest O. Ògúnyẹmí is the author of the chapbook, A Pocket of Genesis (Variant Literature, 2023). He curated The Fire That Is Dreamed Of: The Young African Poets Anthology (Agbowó, 2020), the first anthology of poems by teenage African poets in the continent and its diaspora. His works appear/ are forthcoming in AGNI, the Sun, Hopkins Review, Kenyon Review, Joyland, the Moth, Banshee, Muzzle, 20.35 Africa, Fantasy, Asimov’s, Mooncalves: An Anthology of Weird Fiction, and elsewhere.
Ògúnyẹmí also teaches poetry workshops. In 2022, he served as a Visiting Teaching Artist with the Poetry Foundation. In 2021, he taught an extensive poetry workshop with the Nairobi Writing Academy (NaiWa). He was a poetry mentor in the Adroit Summer Mentorship Program—in 2022; and he returns as a mentor in the same program in 2023.
Among other honors, he is the winner of the inaugural Miracle Monocle Award for Young Black Writers from the University of Louisville. He won second place in the No Tokens Young Poets’ Prize, 2019; and, in 2022, was a finalist for the Alpine Fellowship Poetry Prize.
Ògúnyẹmí is a student of History and International Studies at Lagos State University.
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Ernest O. Ògúnyẹmí is the author of the chapbook, A Pocket of Genesis (Variant Literature, 2023). He curated The Fire That Is Dreamed Of: The Young African Poets Anthology (Agbowó, 2020), the first anthology of poems by teenage African poets in the continent and its diaspora. His works appear/ are forthcoming in AGNI, the Sun, Hopkins Review, Kenyon Review, Joyland, the Moth, Banshee, Muzzle, 20.35 Africa, Fantasy, Asimov’s, Mooncalves: An Anthology of Weird Fiction, and elsewhere.
Ògúnyẹmí also teaches poetry workshops. In 2022, he served as a Visiting Teaching Artist with the Poetry Foundation. In 2021, he taught an extensive poetry workshop with the Nairobi Writing Academy (NaiWa). He was a poetry mentor in the Adroit Summer Mentorship Program—in 2022; and he returns as a mentor in the same program in 2023.
Among other honors, he is the winner of the inaugural Miracle Monocle Award for Young Black Writers from the University of Louisville. He won second place in the No Tokens Young Poets’ Prize, 2019; and, in 2022, was a finalist for the Alpine Fellowship Poetry Prize.
Ògúnyẹmí is a student of History and International Studies at Lagos State University.