Chijioke Amu-Nnadi

He is currently working on two collections of poetry: the love chronicles which contains 100 epic poems, which he expects to reach bookshelves in 2020, and eucalyptus which will be released in 2021.

Amu-Nnadi is the author of the fire within (2002), winner of the inaugural 2002 Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) Gabriel Okara Prize for poetry, pilgrim's passage (2004) and through the window of a sandcastle, winner of the 2013 ANA Poetry Prize, as well as the inaugural Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry in 2014. He also has to his name and credit a river's journey and a field of echoes, both of which were published in 2016. Amu Nnadi writes poetry without punctuation and capital letters and publishes without any personal data, photograph and name. He lives in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, and his poetry is well received in Africa and beyond. Some of his poetry has been translated into Italian and Russian.

Chijioke Amu-Nnadi (born Chijioke Ndubuisi Amu-Nnadi; 28 March 1962 in Benin City, Nigeria) is a Nigerian poet and author. His poem "poetry" was his first published work, appearing in the 1987 anthology of new Nigerian poetry, Voices from the Fringe, edited by Harry Garuba (Malthouse Press).

Amu-Nnadi was born in Benin, the capital of Edo State, south Nigeria in 1962, though is from Aku, Igbo Etiti Local Government Area of Enugu State, Nigeria. As he admits, poetry came to him late in life, in response to a challenge from a friend. As a first year student of Mass Communication at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, he had the privilege of sharing the same class with a few young men who loved poetry. He was the only one who had no time for poetry and the only one who had not studied literature. Secretly, he began to read poetry and spent a great deal of his pocket money on every kind of books of literature, particularly poetry.