Ismail Yusuf Olumoh is a writer and teacher pursuing a DVM at the University of Maiduguri. His works appear/forthcoming in South Carolina Review, Bore Score Lit, April Centaur, Agbowó Magazine, Eye To The Telescope, Palette Poetry, Brittle Paper, Shallow Tale Reviews, Eunoia Review, Rowayat, Strange Horizons, and others. You can read him here: linktr.ee/icreatives0
Selected work
Grieving - Rowayat
Rowayat, 2023
Epitaph of an Unripened Fruit Forced into Throat of Trench | Ismail Yusuf Olumoh
Agbowó, 2025
To you, a boy grieving. How does it taste? — The AprilCentaur
The AprilCentaur, 2025
Literary YardMy Grandpa Betrayed Me Twice
Literary Yard, 2022
A Poem: A Self Portrait At Twenty-One
Icreatives Review, 2022
i redeem their emptiness with food - Ismail Yusuf Olumoh. - Afrihill Press
Afrihill Press, 2023
River Ordeals; A boy serving God, served a bullet– Two Poems By Nigerian Writer, Ismail Yusuf Olumoh | Ta Adesa
Ta Adesa, 2023
the cartography of grace
Eunoia Review, 2024
Oblivion: a sense of not belonging
Eunoia Review, 2024
Reminiscence | Ismail Yusuf Olumoh | Poetry - Poetry | Nantygreens
Nantygreens, 2022
Our Contributors - O - The MockingOwl Roost
The MockingOwl Roost, 2021
Chromaphonetics: I Know Every Colour In My Culture By Its Name & Nature - Cultural Daily
Cultural Daily - Independent Voices, New Perspectives, 2025
promise in my country is another way of gambling lives | Ismail Yusuf Olumoh - The Shallow Tales Review
The Shallow Tales Review, 2025
hypercapnia
Strange Horizons, 2025
Home Is a Gunpowder Grit Between My Teeth | Ismail Yusuf Olumoh | Poetry
Brittle Paper, 2025
A Cyborg God, My Country and Her People: A Holocaust, An Iconography of War and Grief - Ismail Yusuf Olumoh. - Afrihill Press
Afrihill Press, 2024
One Poem by Ismail Yusuf Olumoh - Eboquills
Eboquills, 2022
The Smallest Mark That Decides Our Exile as a Cartography of Breath - Teambooktu
Teambooktu, 2025
River Ordeals - The Hyacinth Review
The Hyacinth Review, 2023
a bird-riding grief - Palette Poetry
Palette Poetry, 2024