Ikenna Okeh

Ikenna Okeh is a Nigerian novelist, poet, playwright and cultural curator whose literary practice is rooted in the imaginative possibilities of African experience. His poetry is discussed in Dr Nicklas Hållén’s scholarly study, OkadaBooks and the Poetics of Uplift, published in English Studies in Africa.

Okeh was formerly a member of the editorial team of The Hotazel Review. He has participated in literary and cultural programmes internationally and, in 2024, was a writer-in-residence at the Africa Center Mexico, where he also served as director of the Puebla International Literature Festival 2024.

Beyond his writing, Okeh is deeply engaged in building literary institutions and communities. He is the founder of Tiny Dot Bookstore and The Tiny Dot Review, independent literary and cultural platforms dedicated to cultivating reading, publishing, criticism and creative exchange. He is also the founder of Linea House Publishing.

His work places him within a generation of African writers concerned not only with producing literature, but with creating the cultural structures through which literature is read, discussed, preserved and carried across borders.