Ojo Olumide Emmanuel is a Minna-born Nigerian Poet, Educationist and Book Editor. He is the author of the Poetry Chapbook “Supplication For Years in Sands” (Polarsphere Books, 2021) and “How Flowers Pollinate Before the Arrival of Butterflies (Authorpaedia, 2022).

He is the winner of the WeNaija Literary Contest (Non-Fiction, 2023) and first runner-up for the Abubakar Gimba Prize for Non-fiction.

His works have appeared and are forthcoming at Shallowtales Review, Ake Review, Feral, Quills, Poemify, Melbourne-Culture, TNR, and elsewhere. He is the Editor-in-Chief of The Nigerian Review (TNR) .

He is currently the curator of the Wakaso Women Poetry Prize and the HIASFEST monthly panel discussion on Nigerian Literature.

He is a Senior Mentor at the Hill-Top Creative Arts Foundation and a Mentor of the SprinNG Writing Fellowship.