Gerald Ewa
Managing Editor
Ewa Gerald Onyebuchi is a writer from Ebonyi State, Nigeria. His works revolve around queerness, feminism and religion. He was a finalist in the 2023 Gerald Kraak Awards, the 2025 Dream Foundry Contest for Emerging Speculative Fiction Writers and longlisted for the Quramo Writer’s Prize in the same year. He has been published in Isele, Uncanny, Ubwali, Meetinghouse magazine, and elsewhere.
Juliana Nwazodoni
Features Editor
Juliana Nwazodoni is a Writer, Lecturer of Literature, and Spoken Word Poet. Her works, spanning short stories, essays and poems, have appeared in The Mexodus, Voyage of Discovery, Enibokun Journal, EJOLLS, Kokonut Head Media, Literary Denizens, and Ayánfé. She has performed at various events, including TEDx AAU Ekpoma, and was a Writer-in-Residence at the Rongo Artist Residency. Her body of work includes the poetry collection, A Girl’s Body is a Story, and Fragments of Us, a poetry exhibition. She founded The Story Yard, a literary community in Ekpoma, and Your Literary Buddy, a virtual platform for teaching Literature.
Qudus Olowo
Poetry Editor
Qudus Olowo, popularly known as ‘Blacc’ is a Nigerian writer, rapper, singer, songwriter, editor, and entrepreneur. He is the Founding Editor of Afrihill Press and a former Editorial Intern at Another Chicago Magazine. His works have appeared in Ake Review, Lolwe, Kalahari Review, Temz Review, Sunlight Press, Blue Marble Review, Brittle Paper, Poetry Column NND, and elsewhere. He is the author of the micro-chapbook ‘Making Love by the Waterside’ (Afrihill Press, 2023). He was longlisted for the Brigitte Poirson Literature Prize 2024. He was a poetry mentor at the SprinNG Writing Fellowship from 2022 to 2024, a 2025 Rongo Art Residency Artist-in-Residence, and currently a member of The Ugly Collective. Qudus holds a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology from the University of Ilorin, Kwara. You can reach him via X @iamblacc_ and on Instagram @iamblacc_
Chukwuebuka Alu
Associate Poetry Editor
Chukwuebuka Alu is a Nigerian poet. He is an alumnus of the Rongo Artist Residency. For his poetry he has been nominated/shortlisted for The Best of Net (2021), the Stephen A. Dibiase Poetry Prize (2021 & 2024), The Jack Grapes Poetry Prize (2021), Eriata Oribhabor Poetry Prize (2022) and the Brigette Poirson Literature Prize (2024). His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming on The Temz Review, Third Coast, Beaver Magazine, Kissing Dynamite Poetry, Roadrunner Review, MacGuffin, 20.25 Africa: An Anthology, Glass Mountain, Rigorous, Deraciné, Defunkt, New Feathers Anthology and elsewhere under the name Ebuka Evans. In 2025, he founded The Akachi Creative Writing Foundation to provide support to young African creative writers.
Testimony Odey
Prose Editor
Testimony Odey is a Nigerian writer whose works have been published in magazines and journals such as The FEMINIST Magazine, Poetry Pause, The Deadlands, Brittle Paper, and PoeticAfrica. She was an artist-in-residence at the Rongo Artist Residency and MAAR. She has been shortlisted for the African Human Rights Short Story Prize and Brigitte Poirson Literature Prize, and is a recipient of the Nigerian Prize for Teen Authors, inaugural African Teen Writers Awards, HIASFEST Star Prize, and Wakaso Poetry Prize. She enjoys films, reading, singing, and philosophical conversations. On social media, she’s @testimonyodey.
Onyinyechi Favour
Associate Prose Editor
Igbokwe Onyinyechi Favour is a Nigerian writer and storyteller currently studying English and Literature at the University of Benin. A devoted lover of African literature, her work delves themes of love, self-discovery, human emotion and memory, often blending lyrical language with personal reflection. She is the current Secretary at the English and Literature Students Association Creative Writing Workshop at UNIBEN, was an Artist-in-Residence at the Rongo Artist Residency in 2025, organized by the Benin Arts and Books Festival, and is also a fellow of The Ugly Collective. She is on Instagram as @igbokwe_onyinyechi_favour.
Oladosu Michael Emerald
Art/Photography Editor
Oladosu Michael Emerald is a writer, artist, photographer, and actor. He is the author of “Every Little Thing That Moves” and serves as an editor at Uncanny Magazine and Surging Tide. A Science Fiction Poetry Association member. A 3x Best of the Net nominee and 3x Pushcart nominee, he is the winner of the Sine Qua Non Inaugural Poetry Prize, Off the Limit Contest, SprinNG Poetry Contest, Garden Party Collective Neurodivergent Poetry Contest, and first runner-up of the Sande Poetry Prize. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Chestnut Review, FIYAH, ONLY POEMS, Asimov, Bournemouth Journal, Temz Review, and elsewhere.
He is a pioneer resident of the Muktar Aliyu Art Residency and the Rongo Art Residency and a fellow of The Ugly Collective. He tweets @garricologist on X and @oladosu_michael_emerald on Instagram.
Emmanuel Okoro
Social Media Manager
Okoro Ikechukwu Emmanuel, also known as Young Emike is a Nigerian filmmaker, director, and cinematographer, as well as a freelance photographer, driven by intentional storytelling for cultural and social impact. His work spans film and documentary, exploring identity, power, gender, and community narratives while challenging dominant illusions and reframing African stories with depth and authenticity. Through cinematic visuals and thoughtful storytelling, he promotes underrepresented voices and is building a creative empire that bridges cinema and visual culture.
