Tolu Oloruntoba

Tolu Oloruntoba is a Nigerian-Canadian poet and physician, whose debut poetry collection The Junta of Happenstance won the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry at the 2021 Governor General's Awards and the 2022 Griffin Poetry Prize.

His collection, Each One A Furnace, was reviewed in Rungh Magazine by poet Phinder Dulai.

Originally from Ibadan, Nigeria, Oloruntoba currently works in British Columbia as a manager of virtual health projects. His poetry chapbook Manubrium was shortlisted for the 2020 bpNichol Chapbook Award.