k. eltinaé is a diaspora poet of Sudanese-Nubian and Mediterranean descent whose work is centred
around otherness, cultural/geographic displacement, generational trauma, and exile. His work has
appeared in World Literature Today, The Ordinary Chaos of Being Human: Many Muslim Worlds
(Penguin), The African American Review, and Michigan Quarterly Review, among others. His debut
collection The Moral Judgement of Butterflies won The Beverly Prize for International Literature
2019 (BSPG Press) and the Eyelands Book Award 2022. He is the first-place poetry winner of Muftah ́s
Creative Writing Competition At Home in the World. Winner of the Memorial Reza Abdoh Poetry
Prize 2021 from Tofu Ink Press, and the co-winner of the 2019 Dignity Not Detention Prize from
Poetry International. He is a World Literature lecturer and an Oldies and Classic Afrobeat Disc jockey
residing in Granada, Spain.