Hope Joseph is an essayist and poet. He writes from Nigeria, West Africa. He is a Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize nominee, a joint winner of the SEVHAGE/Agema Founder’s Prize for Creative Non-Fiction, and a 2021 fellow of the SprinNG Writing Fellowship. He also serves as a reader for Reckoning Press.
“I want a portal I can walk through to a place where people aren’t permitted to visit twice: youth. I want my parent’s laughter crackling through my ears half a century from now as fresh and alive.”