Ugochukwu Damian Okpara is a Nigerian writer and poet. He is the author of the poetry collection, In Gorgeous Display (Fordham University Press, Sept 2023). An alumnus of Chimamanda Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus Trust Creative Writing Workshop, his work appears or is forthcoming in Poetry Magazine, Poetry Wales, The Masters Review, Lolwe, The Republic, 14 Poems, Ruminate, The Penn Review, Salamander Magazine, and elsewhere. He is also the author of the poetry chapbook, I Know the Origin of My Tremor (Sundress Publications, 2021), and is currently an MFA candidate in poetry at the University of Mississippi.

Website: www.ugochukwudamian.com