Romeo Oriogun – författare

2021 Lambda Literary Awards Finalist In this groundbreaking collection of poems, Sacrament of Bodies, Romeo Oriogun fearlessly interrogates how a queer man in Nigeria can heal in a society where everything is designed to prevent such restoration. With honesty, precision, tenderness of detail, and a light touch, Oriogun explores grief and how the body finds survival through migration.

Winner of the 2023 Julie Suk AwardWinner of the 2024 Nebraska Book AwardFinalist for the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist for the 2024 Midwest Book AwardFinalist for the 2025 Kingsley Tufts Poetry AwardShortlisted for the 2024 Derek Walcott Prize for PoetryLike I knew, standingon the seashore, the hungerwracking a migrant’s bodyis movement.-from Romeo Oriogun’s “Migrant by the Sea”The Gathering of Bastards chronicles the movement of migrants as they navigate borders both internal and external. At the heart of these poems of vulnerability and sharp intelligence, the poet himself is the perpetual migrant embarked on forced journeys that take him across nations in West and North Africa, through Europe, and through American cities as he navigates the challenges of living through terror and loss and wrestles with the meaning of home.