Kehinde Badiru’s background is in writing, communications, product and marketing content design, and UX content strategy. He has contributed and collaborated on different content & product design projects across various lifecycle stages and touchpoints.

Kehinde received an MFA Degree in Creative Writing, a Master’s in English Literature, and a BA in English. Author of two Collections of poetry—I Know Why Your Mother Cries and An Assortment of Poetry Genres, co-edited with British writer, Angie Andrews.

Kehinde’s poetry and short stories have also appeared in journals and anthologies: Reverberations III, Visual Verse, Roosevelt University’s Oyez Review, RiskPress Anthology, and forthcoming elsewhere. Additionally, he founded WriteNowLit, Nigeria’s foremost Creative Writing Nonprofit, and a multigenre literary journal that is home to writers from all parts of the globe. Kehinde served as Editor-in-Chief for MARY journal, and was a recipient of a Teaching Fellowship from the Center for Writing Across the Curriculum. 

Kehinde was a recipient of the RiskPress Fellowship and the prestigious ‘Brenda Hillman Award’ for 2023, presented to a writer for their outstanding creative work, literary excellence, and community spirit. He writes for digital products, and continues to inspire students and budding writers to write to the world and tell their stories.

Beyond the written word, he finds joy in the beauty of memory, dreams, visual design, smoothjazz and new age music. Kehinde is currently working on his debut novel, and some other writing-related projects.