Selina Nwulu
Selina Nwulu is a poet and essayist. Her work has been widely featured in a variety of journals, short films, and anthologies, including the critically acclaimed New Daughters of Africa and, more recently, Nature Matters, an environmental anthology written by the global majority.
She has performed internationally and her work has been translated into Spanish, Greek, German, and Polish, as well as exhibited at Southbank, Somerset House, the Irish Museum of Modern Art, on Warsaw metro, and in New York. Her latest work, Drawn Breath, Exhaled Frequencies was exhibited in 2025 as part of a sound installation at Locust Projects, a contemporary arts space in Florida, U.S.
She was Young Poet Laureate for London 2015-16, an award that showcases literary talent across the capital, and shortlisted for the Brunel International African Poetry Prize in 2019. She is also a 2021 Arts Award Finalist for Environmental Writing. Her full-length collection, A Little Resurrection, was a Poetry Book Society recommendation and published with Bloomsbury in 2022. It was an Irish Times book of the year, and a poem from the collection was highly commended for the 2023 Forward Prizes.
Her debut essay collection, Black Climates, is an exploration of Blackness and climate justice and was published by Vintage in August 2025.
