Draft:Okwudili Nebeolisa

  • Comment: The sources are primary and does not constitute to notability. The poetry collection Terminal Maladies is notable as I’ve found sources to establish notability. Best, Reading Beans, Duke of Rivia 08:58, 17 November 2024 (UTC)


Okwudili Nebeolisa is a Nigerian writer[1]. He is the author of the poetry collection Terminal Maladies (Autumn House Press, 2024)..[2] He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop where he studied poetry, and is currently a student in fiction at the University of Minnesota[3]

Life

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Nebeolisa grew up in Kaduna, Nigeria.[2] He studied chemical engineering at the Federal University of Technology, Minna[4] and then went on to earn an MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers' Workshop[5] where he was awarded a Provost Fellowship and won the Prairie Lights John Leggett's Prize for Fiction.[6]

Nebeolisa has been awarded grants from the Elizabeth George Foundation and the Granum Foundation,[7] and a residency from the Center for the Arts Crested Butte.[8] He has been a finalist for the Sillerman First Book Prize for African[9] Poets[10].

Work

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Nebeolisa's debut poetry collection Terminal Maladies was selected by Nicole Sealey as the winner of the 2023 Center for African American Poetry and Poetics Prize (CAAPP) and was subsequently published in September, 2024 by Autumn House Press. In a favorable review, Publishers Weekly described it "a robust assemblage of dreamscapes, conversations, prayers, and meditations on life and death" and explores with the experience of losing a parent[11].[12] Nebeolisa's poems have appeared in Poetry Magazine[13], Threepenny Review[14], The Sewanee Review[15], The Southern Review[16], Image Journal[17], The Cincinnati Review[18], Salamander Magazine[19], Florida Review[20] Online, and [[Beloit Poetry Journal[21]]].

Book

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Terminal Maladies (Autumn House Press, 2024)[22][23]

Awards

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References

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  1. ^ "Okwudili Nebeolisa". Autumn House Press.
  2. ^ a b "Terminal Maladies". Autumn House Press.
  3. ^ "Graduate Students, University of Minnesota".
  4. ^ "Nigerian student wins international poetry prize". The Nation.
  5. ^ "Okwudili Nebeolisa". The Poetry Foundation.
  6. ^ "Okwudili Nebeolisa". Cutleaf Journal.
  7. ^ "Nicole Sealey Wins Inaugural Granum Foundation Prize". Granum Foundation. November 9, 2021.
  8. ^ "Mountain Words Writers-in-Residence". Mountain Words Festival.
  9. ^ "Prairie Schooner, African poetry fund awards Sillerman Prize".
  10. ^ "Okwudili Nebeolisa". Fireside Magazine. Fireside Magazine.
  11. ^ "Terminal Maladies". University of Chicago Press. University of Chicago Press.
  12. ^ "Terminal Maladies". Publishers Weekly.
  13. ^ "Innocence". The Poetry Foundation.
  14. ^ "My Own Ash by Okwudili Nebeolisa". Threepenny Review.
  15. ^ "Strange Rain". The Sewanee Review.
  16. ^ "Three Poems by Okwudili Nebeolisa".
  17. ^ "Two poems by Okwudili Nebeolisa". Image Journal.
  18. ^ "18.1 - The Cincinnati Review". December 3, 2020.
  19. ^ "The Pages in August by Okwudili Nebeolisa". Salamander Magazine.
  20. ^ Florida Review https://cah.ucf.edu/floridareview/article/cooing-longing/. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  21. ^ "Backyard, Morning". Beloit Poetry Journal.
  22. ^ "In person: Okwudili Nebeolisa book launch with Donika Kelly". Milkweed Books.
  23. ^ Terminal Maladies. Autumn House Press. September 2024. p. 72. ISBN 9781637680940.
  24. ^ www.caapp.pitt.edu https://www.caapp.pitt.edu/opportunities/2020-caapp-book-prize. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  25. ^ "Five Writers in Residence announced Join a reception this Friday at the Center".