Rasaq Malik Gbolahan
Rasaq Malik Gbolahan is a PhD student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is a Nigerian poet and translator. He is a co-founder of Àtẹ́lẹwọ́, the first digital journal devoted to publishing literary work written in the Yorùbá language. His poems have been published or are forthcoming in journals such as POETRY, Ploughshares, Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, The Nation, and elsewhere. He was shortlisted for Brunel International African Poetry Prize in 2017. He was a finalist for Sillerman First Book for African Poets in 2018.
He is the winner of the 2024 Anhinga Prize for Poetry. His book, THE ORIGIN OF WOUNDS, selected by Kaveh Bassiri, and will be available in January 2026,