Selected Awards, Fellowships, and Honors
2026
Longlist Finalist for the Julie Suk Award (for Winged Witnesses)
Finalist for the Furious Flower Poetry Prize
Jerome Kenton Phipps Endowed Scholarship in Creative Writing award, University of Alabama.
2025
Winner of the fellowship grant for SAFTA Residency, Knoxville, Tennessee
Finalist for Harbor Review’s Editor’s Prize
Best of the Net nomination (Porter House Review)
Pushcart Prize nomination (Jacar Press)
2024
Winner of the New Voices Award (Jacar Press)
Fellowship Winner for the University of Alabama Graduate Council Fellowship
Finalist for the Center of African Poetry and Poetics (CAAPP) Book Prize
2022
Finalist for the Brunel International African Poetry Prize (now the Evaristo Prize for African Poetry)
Finalist for the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets
Finalist for Isele Poetry Prize
Best of the Net nomination (by Hotazel Review)
Pushcart Prize nomination (by Poetry Currency)
2021
Finalist for the Gerald Kraak Prize
Finalist for the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets
Longlist Finalist for the Stephen A. Dibiase Poetry Prize
Pushcart Prize nomination (by Beloit Poetry Journal)
2020
Finalist for the Frontier Award for New Poets
Semi-finalist for the Jack Grapes Poetry Prize
2019
Finalist and special commendation for the Gerald Kraak Prize
2018
Finalist for the Brittle Paper Award for Poetry
2017
Third Prize Winner, Nigerian Students’ Poetry Prize
Chisom Okafor 