GBENGA ADESINA, Nigerian poet and essayist, received his MFA from New York University, where he was mentored by Yusef Komunyakaa. His work has been published in the Paris Review, Harvard Review, Academy of American Poets’ Poem-A-Day, Guernica, Narrative, The Best American Poetry, The New York Times Magazine, and elsewhere, and has been translated into six languages. He is the inaugural Mellon Foundation Post-doctoral Fellow in Global Black and Diasporic Poetry at the Furious Flower Poetry Center, James Madison University. His debut book of poems, Death Does Not End at the Sea, was longlisted for the National Book Award in Poetry.
