Daniel Naawenkangua Abukuri (he/him) is a Black poet and prose writer from Ghana. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Poetry Wales, Prairie Schooner, Berkeley Poetry Review, Transition Magazine, The Malahat Review, Chestnut Review, Orion Magazine, Colorado Review, North American Review and elsewhere. He is a nominee for the Best of the Net, the Pushcart Prize, the BREW Poetry Award, and the 2026 Caine Prize. He is the winner of the 2025 African Writers Award for Poetry and Poetry Archive Now! Wordview 2025, finalist for the 2025 Adinkra Poetry Prize, and the runner-up for the 2026 Cambridge Poetry Prize. He is an Obsidian Foundation Fellow and was featured in the Obsidian Foundation Showcase with The Poetry Society.