Joemario Umana

Joemario Umana, Swan XVII, is a Nigerian creative writer and a performance poet who considers himself a wildflower. His works have appeared in Prairie Schooner, Chestnut Review, Orange Blossom Review, Frontier Poetry, Uncanny Magazine, LOLWE, Strange Horizons, South Florida Poetry Journal, Ubwali Lit, ONE ART journal, Akpata Magazine, Poetry Sango-Ota, Poetry Column-NND, trampset, and elsewhere. He was shortlisted for the Kayode Aderinokun Poetry Prize and the Akachi Chukwuemeka Prize for literature, 2025. When life gives him a breathing space, he roams the streets of twitter as @JoemarioU38615.