I was born in Warri, Nigeria, and live in Ireland. I studied at the University of Lagos, and the University of Iowa. I obtained a Master of Arts from Waterford Institute of Technology. My poetry has been published in a number of online and print journals and an Irish-Canadian anthology. I was nominated for the 2009 Pushcart Prize by The Swarthmore Literary Review, The Taylor Trust, and Jack Magazine.

The inspiration for these poems comes from a day about a year ago. I saw a snail in the rain, dragging its weight across the road. I felt strongly and deeply that this is a creature living but dragging and dragging its sluggish weight over the road. 
Looking as he drags, slowly, his tired body along the lonely road makes me think if patience is a virtue. For looking alone, all the proverbs and stories about the virtues of the snail melt away. It’s a creature like every other creatures that are slow and want to move to another place.

Then I came in and went down to my desk and finally wrote a long poem I think I’ll keep for myself. It’s a poem about an eagle in the shape of a snail, the wings cut off.

Some months later, I rewrote and reduced the length of the poem to two short poems, Snail 1 and Snail 2. But I could only write of its beauty, and not its weight. I could only fit in the wisdom in its slowness in the revised poems. I couldn’t fit in its despair.