Oluwasegun Romeo Oriogun is a Nigerian poet and essayist.
[1][2] He won the 2017 Brunel University African Poetry Prize and the Nigeria Prize for Literature award 2022 (the first openly queer writer to win)[3] for his collection Nomad[4] and was a finalist for the 2020 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry[5] and The Future Awards African Prize for Literature.
He has received fellowships and support from Ebedi International Writers Residency, Harvard University,[6] Hutchins Center for African and African American Research,[7] Oregon Institute for Creative Research, and the IIE- Artist Protection Fund.
[11] Romeo received his MFA in creative writing from the Iowa Writers Workshop in 2020.
Romeo is an Assistant Professor at Florida Atlantic University.