Isaiah Adepoju, Rtd. Nigerian, is a novelist and a poet. He is passionate with the investigation of the grief of nothing, the grief of absence, and the existence of nothing. Currently studying Literature in English at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, he is also a fellow of the Ebedi International Writing Residency, the Deputy Editor in Chief of The Nigeria Review, and has won third prize at Ken Saro Prize for Review, and won the 2022 HIASFEST Star Prize. He has works in Poetica Review!, TSTR, Fortunate Traveler’s Mag, Institute of African Studies NSUKKA, etc. His debut novel is forthcoming in the UK in 2023. Reach him: adepojuisaiahgbenga@gmail.com