Michael Akuchie
Poet & Personal Essayist
Lagos, Nigeria
Michael Akuchie is a poet and personal essayist from Nigeria whose work has appeared in Poet Lore, The Rumpus, Gordon Square Review, Lost Balloon, Drunk Monkeys, and other magazines. His debut chapbook 'Wreck' was published by The Hellebore Press in 2021.
Michael Akuchie writes with the kind of quiet intensity that catches you off guard—his work dwells in the spaces between endurance and breaking, where ordinary people discover what they're made of.
There's something almost elemental in his approach to hardship; he doesn't sentimentalize suffering but finds in it a strange kind of clarity about what matters.
Writing from Lagos, he brings a perspective that's both deeply rooted in place and broadly human, showing how the act of surviving can become the act of creating meaning.
- Published Poet & Essayist
- Chapbook Author - 'Wreck' (2021)
- Programs & Communications Lead
- The Hellebore Press Author
- 'Wreck' - Chapbook (The Hellebore Press, 2021)
- Poet Lore
- The Rumpus
- Gordon Square Review
- Lost Balloon
- Drunk Monkeys
Contributing to Programs and Communications at Unserious Collective, developing new poetry and essays
