Dolapo Demuren

Dolapo Demuren (he/him) is a Nigerian-American writer and educator from the Washington D.C. metropolitan area. He received his B.A. in Writing Seminars from Johns Hopkins University, M.F.A from Columbia University and Ed.D from the University of Southern California. His honors include a fellowship from the Cave Canem Foundation and The Academy for Teachers, as well as scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers Conference and nominations for the Pushcart Prize. He is a 2025 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship Winner for his chapbook American Love Sonnets. His poems and other writings are featured or forthcoming in The Adroit Journal, Colorado Review, Prairie Schooner, Poetry London, Poet Lore, On the Seawall, The Maine Review, Tupelo Quarterly and elsewhere. He teaches Creative Writing and Humanities at the University of Maryland College Park, where he is currently the Associate Director of the Jiménez-Porter Writers' House and lectures in the university’s English Department and Honors College. He also teaches Literary Editing and Publishing at George Mason University where he serves as the Managing Editor of Poetry Daily.