ABOUT SPRINNG’S WRITER OF THE MONTH

Ugochukwu Damian Okpara, Nigerian writer and poet, is the author of the poetry chapbook, I Know the Origin of My Tremor (Sundress Publications, 2021). He is an alumnus of the SprinNG Writing Fellowship and Purple Hibiscus Trust Creative Writing Workshop held annually by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. His works appear or are forthcoming in African writer, The Masters Review, Ruminate, The Penn Review, 20.35 Africa, and elsewhere. In 2019, Ugochukwu was the 1st Runner Up in the Nigerian Students Poetry Prize. He was also a contributing interviewer for poetry in Africa in Dialogue.