Marvellous Mmesomachi Igwe

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