Adedayo Agarau is the winner of the 2024 C.P. Cavafy Prize. He was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University ‘25 and a Cave Canem Fellow. He is the Poetry Reviews Editor for The Rumpus. Adedayo’s debut collection, The Years of Blood, which won the Poetic Justice Institute Editor’s Prize, was published by Fordham University Press in September 2025. Adedayo is a creative writing Ph.D. student at the University of Southern California.