Ókólí Stephen Nonso
Ókólí Stephen Nonso (he/him) is a Nigerian writer and a graduate student at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Indianapolis Review, Ellipsis Literature & Art, Good River Review, Hawaii Pacific Review, Feral Journal, Adelaide Literary Magazine, Brittle Paper, The Shallow Tales Review, Olney Magazine, Tuck Magazine, and Ofi Press among others.
He is the 2024 winner of the Muse Journal Award for Best Literary Artist of the Year. His other honors include first runner-up in the Fresh Voice Foundation Poetry Contest and third prize in the Akuko Magazine Inaugural Prize for Poetry (2021). In 2024, he was also shortlisted for the Akachi Chukwuemeka Prize for Literature. He is also the recipient of the 2025 English Department Achievement Scholarship Award at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. In recognition of his growing literary impact, he was profiled in Who’s Who of Emerging Writers 2021 by Sweetycat Press. Say hello on X.