Hussain Ahmed is a Nigerian poet and environmentalist. He holds an MFA in poetry from the University of Mississippi and currently a PhD student at the University of Cincinnati. His poems are featured or forthcoming in AGNI, POETRY Magazine, The Kenyon Review, A Public Space, American Poetry Review and elsewhere. He is a winner of the 2022 Orison Poetry Prize and the author of “Soliloquy with the Ghosts in Nile” (Black Ocean Press, 2022).