Adebe DeRango-Adem

Adebe DeRango-Adem is the author of five full-length poetry books to date. Her poem, Vox Genus / Provectus,” was selected by poet Sonia Sanchez as the winner of the 2021 Boston Review Annual Poetry Contest. In 2023, her fourth poetry collection Vox Humana (Book*hug Press, 2022) won the Raymond Souster Award. In the same year, her poem “Aria Apocalypta” from Lumens was longlisted for the CBC Poetry Prize. In 2024, her poem “Song of Sheba” was featured on Toronto public transit and presented at the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto for Nuit Blanche. She lives in Toronto.