Son of Gold

Hussain Ahmed is the author of Soliloquy with the Ghosts in Nile (Black Ocean Press, 2022) and Blue Exodus (Orison Books, 2024). He won the 2024 Gulf Coast Poetry Prize and the 2024 Black Warrior Review Poetry Contest. Ahmed’s poems have been featured in Poetry magazine, The Nation, American Poetry Review, A Public Space, and elsewhere. A Nigerian poet and environmentalist, Ahmed holds an MFA from the University of Mississippi and is completing a doctoral degree at the University of Cincinnati.