Tolu Oloruntoba [photo credit: Ogeche Agba] was born in Ibadan, Nigeria, where he studied and practiced medicine. He is the author of three collections of poetry:
The Junta of Happenstance (Palimpsest Press, 2021), winner of the Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize and Governor General’s Literary Award,
Each One a Furnace (McClelland & Stewart, 2022), a Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize finalist, and
Unravel (McClelland & Stewart, 2025) [
see my review of such here]. Recent poems appear online at
Canadian Literature,
Chaudiere Books' National Poetry Month series,
The Walrus,
the "Tuesday poem" series,
The American Poetry Review and
the ex-puritan,
with further poems linked via his website. You can find numerous interviews with him online, including the full videos of
Eleanor Wachtel's interview and
Ian Williams' interview, both through the Griffin Poetry Prize, as well as
Trevor Corkum through 49th Shelf,
David Ly through PRISM International and
through the 12 or 20 questions series,
as well as a slew of others linked via his website. He lives in Calgary, Alberta, and writes poems in the small crevice between parenting two young children, working as a poetry and copy editor, and managing provincial healthcare projects. He is very tired.
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