Hussain Ahmed

Hussain Ahmed is a Nigerian poet and environmentalist with an MFA from the University of Mississippi. He is currently a PhD student at the University of Cincinnati. His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Poetry Magazine, The Kenyon Review, and A Public Space. His collection Blue Exodus, published by Orison Books in 2024, won The 2022 Orison Poetry Prize and was a finalist for The Derek Walcott Prize and The Ohio Book Award. It explores home, war, displacement, and grief. He is also the author of the poetry collection Soliloquy with the Ghosts in Nile (Black Ocean Press, 2022).