Saddiq Dzukogi is a Nigerian-born poet based in USA where he is an assistant professor of English at Mississippi State University. He is the author of Your Crib, My Qibla (Nebraska, 2021), winner of the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry and the Julie Suk Award and finalist for the Nigeria Prize for Literature.
His poems have appeared in the Poetry Magazine, Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, Narrative Magazine, Ploughshares, Guernica Magazine, Poetry London, Best American Experimental Writing Anthology, and Cincinnati Review. He has received fellowships from the Nebraska Arts Council, Mississippi Arts Commission, and Cave Canem.
His epic poem “Bakandamiya: An Elegy” (University of Nebraska Press) is forthcoming in fall 2025.