Zakiyyah Dzukogi is a 17-year-old Nigerian poet. She is the author of Carved (a poetry collection); winner of the Nigeria Prize for Teen Authors 2021, a prize she had earlier won the second-place position in 2020. She is a winner of Brigitte Poirson Poetry Prize 2021 as well as the Splendors of Dawn Poetry Prize 2019. Her works have been published or are forthcoming in Melbourne Culture Corner, Olney Magazine, rigorous, The Account, mixed mag, the beatnik cowboy, Kalahari, spillwords, Sledgehammer, the Dillydoun review, Tilted House, and others.
