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Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún is a Nigerian poet, linguist, translator, and filmmaker. His poetry collections include Edwardsville by Heart (2018), Ìgbà Èwe (2021), and Èṣù at the Library & Other Poems (2024). He is the publisher of OlongoAfrica, Africa co-editor of Best Literary Translations (Deep Vellum), and director of the documentary Ebrohimie Road: A Museum of Memory (2024). He lives between Lagos and Minneapolis.

Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún is a Nigerian poet, linguist, translator, filmmaker, and publisher. His three poetry collections are Edwardsville by Heart (Wisdom's Bottom Press, 2018), Ìgbà Èwe: Translated Poems of Emily R. Grosholz (2021), and Èṣù at the Library & Other Poems (2024). He is the publisher of OlongoAfrica and serves as Africa co-editor of the Best Literary Translations anthology (Deep Vellum, 2024–). He is the editor and publisher of the annotated reissue of Ọlábísí Àjàlá's An African Abroad (OlongoAfrica Press, 2022). His film Ebrohimie Road: A Museum of Memory (2024) is held in the African Studies collections of Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Penn, and the University of Chicago. A pioneer of African digital humanities, he led the introduction of Nigerian English to Google's voice recognition systems and consulted for the Oxford English Dictionary's inclusion of 29 Nigerian English entries. He is the first African to receive the Premio Ostana Special Prize (2016). He holds a B.A. from the University of Ibadan and an M.A. in Linguistics from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. He lives between Lagos and Minneapolis.