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). A 2023 Lambda Literary fellow and an alumnus of Chimamanda Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus Trust Creative Writing Workshop, his work appears or is forthcoming in Poetry Magazine, Poetry Wales, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Greensboro Review, The Masters Review, Lolwe, The Republic, 14 Poems, Ruminate, and other places. He is also the author of the poetry chapbook, I Know the Origin of My Tremor (Sundress Publications, 2021).
