Marvellous Mmesomachi Igwe

Marvellous Mmesomachi Igwe, Swan X, is a budding poet from Port Harcourt, Nigeria. He has been published in Palette Poetry, Chestnut Review, Electric Literature, Poet Lore, Sontag Magazine, Agbowó, Collaborature, Weganda Review, Cloudscent Journal, Serotonin, Isele, Dawn Review, amongst others. He is the winner of the 2024 Kukogho Iruesiri Samson Poetry Prize and co-winner of the 2024 Poetry ColumnNND Chapbook Award. In 2025, he was shortlisted for the Alpine Fellowship Poetry Prize and the Pacific Spirit Poetry Prize. You can find him listening to his favorite singer Lana del Rey, or writing a poem. He tweets @mesomaccius.