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Uche Ogbuji

Ogbújí, Úchèńnà

Birth place: Calabar, Nigeria

14 works in English-language magazines

Date Page Type Title Magazine
December 2012 |1 Poem Ala Entertains Eternal Haunted Summer, Winter Solstice 2012
December 2012 |13 Poem Mysteries of Harvest VI Eternal Haunted Summer, Winter Solstice 2012
December 2013 |13 Poem Trueing to New Year Eternal Haunted Summer, Winter Solstice 2013
March 2014 |7 Poem Fixity (Or Hathor's Hairpin) Eternal Haunted Summer, Spring Equinox 2014
November 2015 |9 Poem The Furies of Mad Max Interfictions Online, November 2015
March 2016 |29 Interview Uche Ogbuji Eternal Haunted Summer, Spring Equinox 2016
June 2017 |19 Poem The Sionan Eternal Haunted Summer, Summer Solstice 2017
July 2017 79 Poem Remote Witness Fiyah, Summer 2017
July 2018 91 Poem Ella Hour Fiyah, Summer 2018
July 2018 |19 Poem Meal of Eyeball Riddled with Arrows, July 2018
June 2019 88|88.1 Poem Spaceman Okéké Visits the Colorado Front Range Amazing Stories, Summer 2019
July 2019 |6 Poem Ójí Íjè (Kola Journey) Fiyah, Summer 2019
July 2020 |6 Poem Late Moonwalk Fiyah, Summer 2020
September 2021 |17 Poem Áhàméfùla Uncanny Magazine, September-October 2021

YearAwardCategoryTitleStatus
2020 Rhysling Award Short Poem Ójí Íjè (Kola Journey) Nominee

From a 2018 bio: "Uche Ogbuji, more properly Úchèńnà Ogbújí, was born in Calabar, Nigeria. He lived in Egypt, England and elsewhere before settling near Boulder, Colorado. [He is] a computer engineer and entrepreneur by trade. His poems, published worldwide, fuse Igbo culture, European classicism, American Mountain West setting, and Hip-Hop. He co-hosts the Poetry Voice podcast, featured in the Best New African Poets anthology, and was shortlisted for Nigeria's Eriata Oribhabor Poetry Prize."
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