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O-Jeremiah Agbaakin holds a law degree from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. His poems are recently published/forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal, Guernica, Pleiades, Poet Lore, Poetry Northwest, RATTLE, Ruminate Magazine, West Branch, and elsewhere. A recipient of a Tin House scholarship, he placed second for the Grist Journal ProForma Contest, finalist for the Chad Walsh Chapbook Series (Beloit Poetry Journal), Black Warrior Review Contest, and the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets. He resides in Oxford, Mississippi, where he is studying for his MFA at the University of Mississippi.