POETRY
On Arriving at My Partner’s Place to Meet His Mother, The Rumpus, 2026
To Speak of White Spaces,TriQuarterly, 2025
What We Hold, Tupelo Quarterly, 2025
A Need to Pander & Alternate Reality, New England Review, 2025 (Print)
Ghazal for Becoming your Own Guardian & No One Teaches You Anything About Exile, Foglifter, 2024 (Print)
Strangers at a Bar in Chicago, Ninth Letter, 2024
In Which a Son and a Mother Meet at the Parking Lot of an Airport Where Queerness Attempts Not to Be a Metaphor for a Bridge, Porter House Review, 2024
Notes on Movement, Michigan Quarterly Review, 2024
Alternative Reality, The Greensboro Review, 2024 (Print)
Beautiful Boy with Garlands around His Waist, Salamander Magazine, 2023 (Print)
At a Queer Safe Space in Lagos, Poetry Wales, 2022 (Print)
Profile, POETRY MAGAZINE, 2021
Portrait of a Boy in Gorgeous Display, Fourteen Poems, 2021 (Print)
Mother is the Only God I Know, Ruminate Magazine, 2021 (Print)
if i die, what would my family write as my biography, 20.35 Africa, 2020
Survival, Cyber Smut Anthology, Guts Publishing, 2020 (Print)
Self-Portrait as White Spaces, The Penn Review, 2020
Prayer, Barren Magazine, 2019
FICTION
The Naming of Things, Lolwe, 2022
Love is Such a Morphing Thing, The Masters Review, 2020
NON-FICTION
The Primal Ache of Exile, Dappled Things, 2025 (Print)
Are You Laughing with Us or At Us? The Republic, 2024
Looking for God, The Republic, 2022
INTERVIEWS & PRESS
Ugochukwu Damian Okpara, Behind the Byline, New England Review, 2025
“Musicality in the Poetry of Healing: A Dialogue with Adedayo Adeyemi Agarau,” Africa in Dialogue, 2020
“Poetry as an Oscillating Universe: A Dialogue with David Ishaya Osu,” Africa in Dialogue, 2020
“A Wilful Act of Empathy: A Dialogue with Alexis Teyie,” Africa in Dialogue, 2020
“The Poetry of Unending Therapy: A Dialogue with Nica Cornell,” Africa in Dialogue, 2019
“Interview with Ugochukwu Damian Okpara, Author of I Know the Origin of My Tremor,” Sundress Publications, 2021
“Ugochukwu Damian Interview – Cyber Smut,” Guts Publishing, 2020
2020 Chapbook Contest Winner Announced
Outwrite 2020 Chapbook Contests
UGOCHUKWU DAMIAN OKPARA, writer & poet 