# Adedayo Agarau

> As a child, I was afraid of the dark.

Canonical: https://www.usemissa.com/@adedayoagarau

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| Based in | Lagos / London |

As a child, I was afraid of the dark.

## About

Adedayo Agarau’s debut collection, The Years of Blood, won the 2026 Nossrat Yassini Poetry Prize. He won The Future Awards Africa Prize for Literature in 2025, and his poem “Halloween, Iowa” won the C. P. Cavafy Prize. Adedayo was a Wallace Stegner Fellow, a Cave Canem Fellow, and a 2024 Ruth Lilly-Rosenberg Fellowship finalist.