Rasaq Malik Gbolahan

Rasaq Malik Gbolahan is a Nigerian poet and translator. His manuscript, 'The Origin of Wounds', won the 2024 Anhinga Prize for Poetry. His poems have been published or are forthcoming in journals such as POETRY, Ploughshares, The Nation, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere. He received Honourable Mention in 2015 Best of the Net for his poem Elegy, published in One. In 2017, Rattle and Poet Lore nominated his poems for the Pushcart Prize. He was shortlisted for the Brunel International African Poetry Prize in 2017. He was a finalist for the Sillerman First Book for African Poets in 2018.