Servio Gbadamosi

A Poet and Publisher, he is a recipient of the 2016 Ebedi International Writers Residency fellowship where he co-wrote the chapbook, A Half-Formed Thing, with fellow residents, Ehi’zogie Iyeoman and Ikechukwu Nwaogu. His poetry collection, A Tributary in Servitude, won the 2015 Association of Nigerian Authors Poetry Prize, and was shortlisted runner-up for the 2018 Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa. Gbadamosi’s works have appeared online as well as in print journals, newspapers and anthologies such as Nigerian NewsDirect, ANA Review 2017, 2018 and 2019, SOROSOKE: A Collection of #End Sars Poems, Crossroads: Anthology of Poems in Honour of Christopher Okigbo, Fela’s Re-arrangement: A Collage of the Poetic Biography of Nigeria’s Folk hero of Afrobeat Music and The Sky is our Earth: Anthology of Fifty Young Nigerian Poets. He co-edited the poetry collections; The Promise this Time was not a Flood: A Sevhage Anthology of Flood Poems and Salt of the Heart: Anthology of Poems for Nigeria at 50. He currently heads Noirledge Publishing, an independent publishing house with a focus on mainstreaming new voices in Contemporary Nigerian Writing.