AYOKUNLE FALOMO is Nigerian, American, a TEDx speaker, and the author of AFRICANAMERICAN'T (FlowerSong Press, 2022), two self-published collections: KIN.DREAD (2017) and thread, this wordweaver must! (2014) and African, American (selected by Selah Saterstrom as the winner of New Delta Review's annual chapbook contest in 2019). His work has been anthologized and published in print and online - The New York Times, Houston Chronicle, Houston Public Media, New England Review, Write About Now, Michigan Quarterly Review, Glass Mountain, Berkeley Poetry Review, Santa Fe Writers Project, The Texas Review among others. A recipient of fellowships from MacDowell and Vermont Studio Center, his poems have been selected as finalists or winners for Fourteen Hills Press' Stacy Doris Memorial Award, Flypaper Magazine's Music Poetry Contest, The OffBeat's Poetry Contest, and Nimrod Journal's The Pablo Neruda Prize in Poetry. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology from University of Houston, a Specialist in School Psychology degree from Sam Houston State University and is currently a Zell Postgraduate Fellow at the University of Michigan's Helen Zell Writers' Program, where he obtained his MFA in Creative Writing - Poetry.
