Bhion Achimba

Bhion Achimba grew up in rural southeastern Nigeria and came to the US as a Harvard University Scholar at Risk Fellow and a visiting poet in the English Department. A graduate of Brown University's MFA program, they were named the 2023 Ruth Lilly & Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellow by the Poetry Foundation and have been published in The New York Times, The Paris Review, The Atlantic, Poetry, Foreign Policy Magazine, et cetera. Bhion has been awarded fellowships and residencies by PEN International, The Fine Arts Work Center, Yaddo, Monson Arts, St. Botolph Foundation, and the University of Utah’s English Department, where they received the Vice-Presidential Doctoral Fellowship. He lives in Berkeley, California.