Biography
D.M. Aderibigbe is the author of 82nd Division (Akashic Books, 2025), winner of the National Poetry Series, and How the End First Showed (University of Wisconsin Press, 2018), winner of the Brittingham Prize in Poetry, among other honors. He has received fellowships from the Mississippi Arts Commission, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference (Walter E. Dakin Fellowship), the James Merrill House, Art Omi/Ledig House, Ucross, Jentel, Boston University, and Bard College, where he was 2025-2026 Senior Fellow in Ethics and Writing. His poems appear in The Atlantic, The Nation, Ploughshares, The Southern Review, The Georgia Review, and New England Review, among others.
Education
- PhD in English and Creative Writing, Florida State University
- MFA in Creative Writing, Boston University
- BA in History and Strategic Studies, University of Lagos, Nigeria
Research Interests
- Creative Writing
- Epistolary Writing
- Poetic Forms
- African and African Diaspora Studies
- World Literature
Teaching Interests
- Poetry