UGOCHUKWU DAMIAN OKPARA, writer & poet

Ugochukwu Damian Okpara is a Nigerian-born writer and poet. He is the author of the poetry collection In Gorgeous Display (Fordham University Press, 2023) and the poetry chapbook I Know the Origin of My Tremor (Sundress Publications, 2021). A 2023 Lambda Literary Fellow and an alumnus of both the Tin House Summer Workshop and Chimamanda Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus Trust Creative Writing Workshop, his work has appeared in POETRY, The American Poetry Review, New England Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Greensboro Review, and other publications. He was a semi-finalist for the James Adams York Prize and a finalist for the Vanderbilt University Literary Prize. He holds an MFA in poetry from the University of Mississippi. Website: www.ugochukwudamian.com

Name Pronunciation

Ugochukwu Damian Okpara

OOh-go-choo-kwoo Day-mee-uhn ahk-PAH-rah