O-Jeremiah Agbaakin

O-Jeremiah Agbaakin (born 1994) is a Nigerian poet, scholar, and teacher based in Athens, Georgia, where he is a doctoral student of Creative Writing at the University of Georgia. He is the author of The Sign of the Ram (2023), selected as part of the New Generation African Poets Chapbook Boxset by Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani.

He is the poetry editor of Yaba Left Review, an online periodical.

Early life
Born in Ikire, Osun State, about 100 miles from Lagos, Agbaakin completed his LL.B in Law and Legal Studies at the University of Ibadan in 2018. He then moved to the University of Mississippi for his Master of Fine Art in Poetry where he graduated in 2023.

Writing and recognition
Agbaakin is the author of the Sign of the Ram. His writing has received scholarship and support from Bread Loaf, Tin House, and Key West Literary Seminar. In 2020, he won second place of the Grist Journal ProForma Contest; as well as 2020 finalist for the Black Warrior Review contest, Chad Walsh Chapbook Series (Beloit Poetry Journal), and the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets. His manuscript, The Root of the Word Babble is Babel, was selected by Chris Abani and Kwame Dawes as a finalist of the Sillerman First Book Prize in 2020. His work, Jephthah II: Akinrere's Daughter Pitches a Victory Song was featured in The Global South. O-Jeremiah also contributed to the editorial efforts to Memento: An Anthology of Contemporary Nigerian Poetry edited by Adedayo Agarau.