Dami Ajayi is a poet, essayist, music critic, digital publisher and medical doctor. His debut book of poems, Clinical Blues, runner up for ANA Poetry Prize, was also shortlisted for the Melita Hume Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared in BBC Radio 4, Prosopisia, World Poetry Book, Badilisha Poetry X-Change, Enkare Magazine and elsewhere. His other writings have been published in the Guardian UK, Chimurenga Chronic, Die Zeit, Wawa Review of Books, OlisaTV and Bakwa Magazine.