Publications
Poetry
"Three Poems" | Unbound: An Anthology of New Nigerian Poets Under 40 (September 2025)
"Three Poems" | Prairie Schooner (vol 98, no 3, Fall 2024)
“The Kitchen as Slaughterhouse where Crucifixion is Just Another Permutation of Loss” | Chestnut Review (vol 5, Issue 1, July 2023)
“Footnotes to being Nigerian and an Arrow at Full Draw” | Palette Poetry (April 2023)
“On New Year’s Eve” | Isele Magazine (September 2023)
"Of all the Languages I Speak, I own None" | Poetry Translation Centre zine (October 2023)
“Somewhere between Moonshine and Dusk” | The Muse Journal (no. 50, May 2023)
"Four poems" | The Unserious Collective Fellowship (December 2023)
"Conversation with the Sea" | Ake Review (December 2022)
"Smirnoff" | The Muse Journal (no. 49, December 2022)
“Panorama of a Coloured Race” | Rattle Poetry (Issue 71, October 2021)
"Two Poems" | The Muse Journal (no. 48, June 2021)
“Crust of Lostness” | Arts Lounge Magazine (January 2021)
"When Your Body Outruns a Country" | Kissing Dynamite Poetry (February 2021)
"Three Poems" | The Rising Phoenix Review (May 2020)
"Two Poems" | The Shore Poetry (Issue 8, November 2020)
"Autobiography as Multiple Things Unhoused" | Fact-Simile Editions (Fall 2020)
"For Each Soul Unmade a New Sky Beams" | Litbreak Magazine (Fall 2020)
"Rhapsodies" | The Muse Journal (no. 47, August 2019)
Journal Articles/ Academic Writing
"Techno-Extractivism and Settler Circuits in Moon of the Crusted Snow”. Canada and Beyond: A Journal of Canadian Literary and Cultural Studies, 2026 (forthcoming).
“Towards Unfurling the Nature of Evil in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter”. The Muse Journal, No. 48, 2021, pp. 45-53.
“Poetry and the Truth of Aletheia: Analysis of Kei Miller’s The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion”. The Muse Journal, No. 49, 2022, pp. 171-185.
“The Poem’s Unfettered Openness: A Post-structuralist Reading of Akwanya’s Pilgrim Foot”. Literature and Literary Criticism in Nigeria: Essays on the Works of A.N. Akwanya. Edited by Mary Jane Okolie and Ogochukwu Ukwueze. New Generation Books, 2022.
“Domestic Diaspora, Tragedy and the Negotiation of Igbo Indigenous Identity in Chimamanda Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun”. RUN Journal of Culture, Vol. 7, 2023, pp. 1-10. (coauthored with Okolie, Mary J.N.)
Interviews
"Dangerous Woman: Exploring the Edith Fowke Fonds at University of Calgary." Libraries and Cultural Resources, UCalgary. October 2025.
“Interview with ACCUTE - Iheoma Joakin-Uzomba.” Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE). January 15, 2025.
"UNN First Class Graduate Shares Secrets to Academic Success with PurpleWorld," by Sarah Adeyemo. True-Focus Journalism. August 22, 2024.
“Africanfuturism, Hollywood and the African Writer: In Conversation with Nnedi Okorafor”. The Muse Journal. July 2023.
“I Wish to See African Literature Set Free: An Interview with Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani”. The Muse Journal. July 2023. Online.
“In Climate Conversation with Iheoma Uzomba.” Arts Lounge Magazine. June 13, 2022.
Culture Writing/ Non Fiction
“Little Did We Know”: How uHlanga Press Disrupted South African Poetry." Open Country Magazine. Nov. 18, 2025.
“Desire as Erosion: Representations of Feminine Sexuality in Nosferatu.” Small World City. Aug 25, 2025. Coauthored with Shehrin Houssain.
“JK Anowe, A Confessional Poet, Confronts Himself.” Open Country Magazine. Feb 4, 2025.
“Breath of Life Reviewed: Faith, Redemption and Male Friendship.” Open Country Magazine. Aug 19, 2024.
“Aiwanose Odafen’s Duology of Womanhood.” Open Country Magazine. July 26, 2024.
“Momtaza Mehri’s Fluid Diasporas.” Open Country Magazine. March 28, 2024.
“A Poet Imagines Dreams for the Displaced.” Open Country Magazine. March 6, 2024.
"Truth-Telling and the Metaphorical Nuances of the Pidgin Language: A review of Eriata Oribhabor’s One Leg Forward, Two Leg Backward.” The Lagos Review. April 30, 2023.
"This Thing We Call Craft: A Review of Cheta Igbokwe's Stage Play Homecoming." Afreecanread. June 5, 2021.
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