A multi-genre writer, editor and journalist from Nigeria.
Rahma O. Jimoh is a multi-genre writer from Nigeria. Her works revitalise traditional West African folklore through fantasy, fabulism, science fiction, magical realism, ballads, sonnets, haikus, free verse and other forms.
Her writing has appeared in Brittle Paper, Isele Magazine, Ake Review, Kalahari Review, Agbowo, Torch Literary Arts, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, Salthill Journal and elsewhere, with work forthcoming in The Slowdown Show and Parentheses Art. Her poem “Walking” was nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and she was shortlisted for the IHRAF Creators of Justice Award in 2023.
She is Poetry Editor at Olumo Review and a Poetry/Prose Reader at Chestnut Review, and she curated the Claws of Hope anthology. She is an alumna of Undertow, the PTC polylingual poet development programme. As a journalist, she reports on health, gender, the economy and everyday life in Nigeria.
Rahma O. Jimoh is a multi-genre writer and journalist from Nigeria. Her work revitalises traditional West African folklore through fantasy, fabulism, science fiction, magical realism and poetry. She is Poetry Editor at Olumo Review and a Pushcart Prize nominee.