Praise Osawaru

Praise Osawaru (he/him) is a writer whose work appears in Agbowó, FIYAH, Frontier Poetry, The Maine Review, 20.35 Africa, and Uncanny Magazine, among others. He won the 2021 Valiant Scribe Poetry Prize, and has been nominated for the Best of Net, Pushcart, and Nina Riggs Poetry Award. He is a Prose Editor at Chestnut Review, a Watering Hole Fellow, and an HUES 2024 Scholar. He’s on Instagram & X: @wordsmithpraise.