You performed the miracle of the red sea to find land, but the waves that brought you here say the shore is not your home.
Oladosu Michael Emerald (he/him) is an art editor at Surging Tide magazine, a poet, a writer, a digital/musical/visual artist, a photographer, a footballer, a boxer, and a political scientist. His works have been published or forthcoming in many magazines and won numerous awards in writing and art: Better Than Starbucks, Flash Frog, Icefloe Press, Undivided magazine, Feral, Afrocritik, Providus bank anthology alongside Professor Wole Soyinka, Oriire, Necro magazine, Ev0ke, shortlisted in Paradise Gate poetry contest (top ten), shortlisted in April Centaur essay competition, Madness Muse Press, Spill Word Web, Paper Lantern Lit, the maul magazine, Zoetic, penumbric, Motheaten magazine, native skin, Nymph, Naija Reader’s Buffet, Terror House Magazine, Spring word web, Third Estate Art magazine, the hearth magazine, kalonipa, and elsewhere. He’s a man who does not know how to give up, and art chose him before he existed. Say hi to him on Twitter (X) @garricologist, and Instagram @garrycologist.