Dami Ajayi is a poet, short story writer, essayist, and medical doctor. His debut book of poems, Clinical Blues (WriteHouse Collective, 2014), was shortlisted for the Melita Hume Poetry Prize. His poems are featured on BBC Radio 4, Prosopisia, World Poetry Book, Badilisha Poetry X-Change, Enkare, and elsewhere. His fiction has been widely anthologized, like Kalahari Review, Afreada, Jalada Africa, Gambit: Newer African Writing, and ITCHM magazine. His nonfiction has been published in the Guardian UK, Chimurenga Chronic, Die Zeit, Wawa Book Review, OlisaTV, and Bakwa. His latest book, A Woman's Body is a Country (Ouida, 2017), was selected by Quartz Africa as one of best books of 2017. He is a Senior Registrar of Psychiatry at Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital, Yaba.