Queer artists are spirit mediums who lift our dead toward light…
Romeo Oriogun was born in Lagos, Nigeria. He is the author of Sacrament of Bodies (University of Nebraska Press, 2020) and the chapbooks Museum of Silence (Arrowsmith Press) and The Origin of Butterflies (APBF). He currently is an MFA candidate for poetry at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he received the John Logan Prize for Poetry.