Dr. Nick Makoha is a Ugandan poet, and the author of The New Carthaginians (Penguin UK). His collection The New Carthaginians was shortlisted for the 2025 T. S. Eliot Prize. Winner of the 2021 Ivan Juritz Prize and the Poetry London Prize, his debut collection Kingdom of Gravity (2017) was shortlisted for the Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection and named one of the Guardian’s Best Books of the Year. Nick was the 2023 Writer-in-Residence at the ICA, and previously served as Writer-in-Residence for The Wordsworth Trust (2019) and Wasafiri. He is a Cave Canem Graduate Fellow and a Complete Works alumnus. In 2015, he won the Brunel African Poetry Prize and, in 2016, the Toi Derricotte & Cornelius Eady Prize for his pamphlet Resurrection Man. His play The Dark, produced by Fuel Theatre and directed by JMK award-winner Roy Alexander, toured nationally in 2019 and was shortlisted for the 2019 Alfred Fagon Award. It won the 2021 Columbia International Play Reading Prize. His poems have appeared in publications such as The Cambridge Review, The New York Times, Poetry Review, Poetry Wales, Rialto, Poetry London, TriQuarterly Review, 5 Dials, Boston Review, Callaloo, Birmingham Lit Journal, and Wasafiri. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (RSL).