Ama Anyafulugo

Ama Anyafulugo is a Nigerian-American poet. Her work explores cultural memory, grief, and spiritual inheritance, with focus on the tensions between absence and belonging. She writes to memorialize both the mundane and the remarkable, often through image-driven lyric forms rooted in emotional precision and restraint. Ama favors poems that avoid sentimentality, even when addressing grief or intimacy. She is interested in poems that prioritize specificity over broad universality; the more grounded a poem is in its own world, the more expansive it becomes. She is inspired by the Harlem Renaissance, specifically the work of Langston Hughes, as well as contemporary poets who merge vulnerability with craft. Ama is currently completing her debut chapbook, Ember.

Her writing has been featured in The Washington Post, and her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Eunoia Review, Academy of the Heart and Mind, The Kalahari Review, and other journals.