Literary Arts

Shedrack Opeyemi Akanbi (he/him) is a writer and dreamer from North-Central Nigeria. A 2022 resident at the Library of Africa and the African Diaspora (LOATAD), he was a finalist for the 2023 Kendeka Prize for African Literature, and was longlisted for the 2024 Toyin Falola Prize. He is an alumnus of the Flame Tree Writers’ Workshop facilitated by Abubakar Adam Ibrahim and Chika Unigwe. His writings appear in Shenandoah, Chestnut Review, Popula, etc. He lives in Providence, RI, where he is a Literary Arts MFA candidate at Brown University.