About D.M.

Awarded Poet

D.M. ADERIBIGBE

D.M. Aderibigbe is from Lagos, Nigeria. He’s the author of 82nd Division (Akashic Books, forthcoming), 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, Sewanee Writers’ Conference (Walter E. Dakin Fellowship), The James Merrill House, OMI/Ledig House, Ucross, Jentel, and Boston University where he earned his MFA in creative writing. His poems appear in The Atlantic, The Nation, Ploughshares, The Southern Review, The Georgia Review, and New England Review, among others. He’s currently an assistant professor in the Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi.