Adedayo Agarau is the third-place winner of the Frontier Industry Prize, 2020. His chapbook, Origin of Names, was selected by Chris Abani and Kwame Dawes for New Generation African Poet (African Poetry Book Fund), 2020.  He is the author of The Arrival of Rain chapbook. His works have appeared in Agbowo, Frontier Poetry, Glass, Perhappenned, and elsewhere.

Adedayo curated and edited Memento: An Anthology of Contemporary Nigerian Poetry. He is an Editor at IceFloe and Assistant Editor at Animal Heart Press. Adedayo is a member of the Unserious Collective.

You can find him on Twitter @adedayo_agarau or www.agarauadedayo.com.