Ìfẹ́olúwa Àyàndélé

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Ìfẹ́olúwa Àyàndélé

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Ìfẹ́olúwa Àyàndélé is from Tede, Nigeria. He is the author of My Father Paints His Dreams on My Body, winner of the 2024 Moon City Poetry Award, forthcoming in Moon City Press at Missouri State University. His poetry has been shortlisted for the 2025 Poetic Justice Institute Editor's Prize for BIPOC Writers, the 2024 Acre Books Poetry series, the 2025 Glass Chapbook Series, the Wisconsin Poetry Series' Brittingham & Felix Pollak Prize, the 2024 Autumn House Rising Writer Prize in Poetry, and the 2023 Button Poetry Chapbook Contest. His work has been nominated for Best New Poets, The Pushcart Prize, and The Best of the Net. His recent work is published in Magma, Transition Magazine, Poetry Wales, Beloit Poetry Journal, Michigan Quarterly Review, Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora, and The Texas Review. He is a doctoral student at Florida State University, where he also received his M.F.A. in Creative Writing. He presently reads for the Southeast Review, and you can find him on Instagram @Ifeoluwaayandele.

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