Patrick A. Howell is an award-winning banker, entrepreneur and writer. His first work was published with the UC Berkeley African American Literary Review and Quarterly Black Book Review. Mr. Howell is a frequent contributing writer to the Huffington Post, Los Angeles Review of Books and has been cited in national platforms as Poetry Foundation, Poetry Society, NBC BLK and The Grio. In 2018, he attended the Leopardi Writer’s Conference in Recanati Italy to complete work on ‘Quarter ’till Judgement Day’, a coming of age experimental fiction work.
Richard Ali is a Nigerian writer whose poems were first published in 2008. He has served in the National EXCO of the Association of Nigerian Authors and sits on the board of Uganda’s Babishai Niwe Poetry Foundation. A member of the Jalada Writers Cooperative based in Nairobi, his work has been published in African Writing, Jalada, Saraba Magazine and elsewhere. The Anguish and Vigilance of Things is his debut collection, was published in 2020. He practices Law in Abuja, Nigeria.
Latest posts by Richard Ali (see all)
- Poets Talk: 5 Questions with Jakky Bankong-Obi - December 3, 2024
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