Maryhilda Obasiota Ibe

Maryhilda Obasiota Ibe (she/her) is a Nigerian poet. She received her BA in English and Literary Studies from the University of Calabar and MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She was awarded the 2025 Indiana Review Poetry Prize, 2024 American Literary Review Poetry Prize, and 2020 Bloomsday Poetry Prize. Her works have appeared in Indiana Review, American Literary Review, Chestnut Review, Brittle Paper, and other publications. She is also a Best of the Net nominee and currently the Hoffman-Halls Emerging Artist Fellow (HEAF) at the Wisconsin Institute of Creative Writing. Maryhilda Obasiota Ibe is a 2025 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellow.