Bhion Achimba wins Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation

Bhion Achimba is named The Poetry Foundation's 2023 Ruth Lilly & Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellows.

Bhion Achimba (they/he) grew up in rural southeastern Nigeria and came to the US as a Scholar-at-Risk fellow at Harvard University. Their manuscript Cantos from the Crossing won the 2023 Center for Book Arts chapbook prize and will be published in November 2023. They earned an MFA in literary arts from Brown University; edit Dgëku, a literary magazine that publishes writing by queer Africans; and serve on the editorial board of TransitionMagazine.

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