Nnadi Samuel(he/him/his) holds a B.A in English & literature from the University of Benin. His works have been previously published/forthcoming in Suburban Review, Seventh Wave Magazine, North Dakota Quarterly, Quarterly West, ROOM, PORTER HOUSE Review, Westerly, Spectacle Magazine, Plenitude Magazine, North America Review, Common Wealth Writers, Foglifter, Ex-Puritan, ARC Poetry, Southword Journal, New Orleans Review, Gutter Magazine, Carte Blanche, The Capilano Review, Poetry Ireland & elsewhere. Author of ‘Nature knows a little about Slave Trade’ selected by Tate.N.Oquendo (Sundress Publication, 2023). A 3x Best of the Net, and 8x Pushcart Nominee. Winner of the Canadian Open Drawer contest 2020, the Miracle Monocle Award for Ambitious Student Writers 2021(University of Louisville), 2022 Angela C Mankiewicz Poetry Contest, the River Heron Editor’s Prize 2022, the Betsy Colquitt Poetry Annual Award, 2022(Texas Christian University), Bronze prize for the Creative Future Writer’s Award 2022, UK London, the Virginia Tech Center for Refugee, Migrants & Displacement Studies Annual Award, 2023, the 2023 Stacy Doris Memorial Award(Fourteen Hills) San Francisco State University Review, the John Newlove Poetry Annual Awards(Ottawa, Canada), 2023 and the Vera Manuel Poetry Awards, 2023 Surrey Muse Art Society(Vancouver, Canada). His third micro-chapbook “Biblical Invasion, BC” is published @Bywords Publication (Ottawa CA) in 2024. He tweets @Samuelsamba10