Dolapo Demuren
poetry
Dolapo Demuren is a Nigerian-American writer and educator from the Washington D.C. metropolitan area. He received his B.A. in Writing Seminars from Johns Hopkins University, M.F.A. from Columbia University and Ed.D from the University of Southern California. He is a 2025 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship Winner for his chapbook American Love Sonnets. His honors include a fellowship from the Cave Canem Foundation and The Academy for Teachers, as well as scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers Conference and nominations for the Pushcart Prize. His poems and other writings are featured or forthcoming in The Adroit Journal, Prairie Schooner, Prelude Magazine, On the Seawall, The Maine Review, Tupelo Quarterly, and elsewhere. He is a finalist for the 2025 Bellingham Review Prize in Poetry and the 2025 Good Life Review Prize in Poetry. He teaches creative writing at the University of Maryland College Park, where he is currently the associate director of the Jiménez-Porter Writers’ House and lectures in the university’s English Department and Honors College.