
Ife O. Olatona is a Johns Hopkins alum and multidisciplinary writer. In 2021, he was spotlighted by the British daily, The Times, in an article honoring 5 top poets under 25. He has performed poems on various stages, and his writing has been published by The Poetry Society, The Massachusetts Review, The Chicago Review of Books, Michigan Quarterly Review, Transition Magazine, and elsewhere. An alum of the Black Playwrights’ Gathering at the Kennedy Center—America’s national cultural center—he previously curated a contemporary African poetry exhibit at the National Museum of Language in the U.S.