Dami Ajayi is a poet, essayist, music critic, digital publisher and medical doctor. His debut book of poems, Clinical Blues (2014) was nominated for Association of Nigerian Authors Poetry Prize (2015), and shortlisted for the Melita Hume Prize. Ajayi’s poems have appeared in Prosopisia, World Poetry Book, Badilisha Poetry X-Change, Enkare Magazine and elsewhere.
His other writings have been published in the Guardian UK, Chimurenga Chronic, Wawa Book Review, OlisaTV, Fortunate Traveller and Bakwa Magazine.
He is a Senior Registrar at Yaba NeuroPsychiatric Hospital in Lagos State, Nigeria