Samuel Ugbechie has works published or forthcoming in Ruminate Magazine, Slippery Elm, Palette Poetry, Nottingham Review, and elsewhere. He's the winner of the 2020 Aurora Poetry Winter Contest, the 2016 Frederick Holland Poetry Collection. His works have been recognized in awards like the Fiddlehead Ralph Gustafson Poetry Prize, Janet B. McCabe Poetry Prize, Vice-Chancellor's International Poetry Prize, Into the Void Poetry Prize, and others. He tweets @sugbechie.