Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto is a PhD candidate in English at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He was named runner-up in the Sparks Poetry Competition, Memorial University, Canada (2023). He has won the Castello di Duino Poesia Prize, the Eriata Oribhabor Poetry Prize (EOPP), and the 2022 Special ANMIG poetry prize, organized by the Centro Giovanni e Poesia di Truiggio, Italy. In 2023 he was shortlisted for the Writivism Poetry Prize, the Alpine Poetry Fellowship, and named runner-up in the African and Africa American Studies Program hosted by UNL’s Institute for Ethnic Studies. His full-length poetry manuscript, The Naming, is coming out in fall 2025 via APBF from the University of Nebraska Press. His works have appeared in Poetry Ireland Review, Oxford Poetry, Massachusetts Review, Frontier, Palette, The Common, Southword Magazine, Colorado Review, Mud Season Review, Notre Dame, Anmly, The Republic, and elsewhere.