Ayokunle Falomo is a Nigerian poet and TEDx speaker, winner of the 2018 Stacy Doris Memorial Award and author of two self-published books – KIN.DREAD and thread, this wordweaver must! His work can be found in print (Local Houston Magazine, Glass Mountain, Berkeley Poetry Review, etc.) and online (The New York Times, Houston Chronicle, Houston Public Media, Write About Now, Mantra Review, etc.).
At MacDowell, he wrote and edited poems that are part of an overarching project that's concerned with the intersection of memory and history (personal, national, global, mythological, etc.), especially in the context of the colonial heritage of Nigeria. Additionally the time at MacDowell was spent researching these themes.
