Ola Osaze

Ola Osaze (any pronoun) is a trans Nigerian migrant, writer, and longtime leader in movements for social justice. Ola’s literary work highlights such themes as exile and displacement, with a particular focus on LGBTQ+ African migrants as they navigate isolation, invisibility and criminalization in the US. Ola is a 2015 Voices of Our Nation Arts (VONA) Fellow, a recipient of the 2016 Saraba Nonfiction Manuscript Prize, shortlisted for Out Smart’s 2020 Readers Choice Award, and a recipient for the Evelyn & Walter Haas Jr. Fund Award for Outstanding LGBTQ Leadership for Immigration Rights. Their writings have been published in a number of anthologies including Black Futures (Penguin Random House), Queer Africa 2 (MaThoko’s Books), and Somewhere We are Human (Harper Collins) to name a few. They have also been featured in the Brittle Paper, Hippocampus Magazine, Apogee, Asterix, Qzine, and Black Looks, among others.