Nome Emeka Patrick is a Nigerian, and Cave Canem fellow. His works have been published or forthcoming in POETRY, AGNI, Beloit poetry journal, Narrative, The American Poetry Review, Waxwing, Poet Lore, Black Warrior Review, and elsewhere. He is a Best of the Net, Best New Poets, and Pushcart prize nominee. He emerged third place in the 2020 Frontier Poetry Award for New Poets, and second place in the 2024 ONLY POEMS prize. His manuscript ‘We Need New Moses. Or New Luther King’ was a finalist for the 2019 Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets. His chapbook, Voyaging, was selected for New Generation African Poet—African Poetry Book Fund (2024) by Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani. He has an MFA from Brown University and is currently a PhD student at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He is the poetry editor at Agbowo.