Biography
After abandoning plans to become a comic book artist and fantasy author, Tolu Oloruntoba spent his early career as a primary care physician. He currently manages virtual health projects, and has lived in Nigeria, the United States, and Canada. His poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, while his debut chapbook, Manubrium, was a bpNichol Chapbook Award finalist. The Junta of Happenstance is his first full-length collection of poetry and it won the 2021 Governor General's Award for English-language poetry and the 2022 Griffin Poetry Prize. He lives in the metro area of Coast Salish lands known as Vancouver.