D. M. Aderibigbe is from Lagos, Nigeria. He’s the author of 82nd Division (Akashic Books, 2025), winner of the National Poetry Series, and How the End First Showed (University of Wisconsin Press, 2018), winner of the Brittingham Prize in Poetry, among other honors. His poems appear in The Atlantic, The Nation, Ploughshares, and other publications. He’s a senior fellow in ethics and writing in the Written Arts Program at Bard College.