Logan February is a Nigerian poet and writer. In addition to poetry, essays, and song lyrics, they are also active as an LGBTQI+ activist. February studied psychology at the University of Ibadan and creative writing at Purdue University.
February’s writing challenges conventional patterns of thought: West African traditions meet European discourses, postcolonial experience and contemporary queer theory intertwine, and the boundaries between the physical and the spiritual dissolve. The poems explore the complexity of identity, which February describes using terms and concepts from ancient Yorùbá knowledge and psychoanalysis.
They have published three chapbooks to date, «How to Cook a Ghost» (2017), «Painted Blue with Saltwater» (2018) and «Garlands» (2019), as well as the poetry collections «In the Nude» (2019) and «Nude Imperative» (2025). In 2024, a bilingual selection of the poems appeared in German for the first time, under the title «Mental Voodoo», translated and edited by poet Christian Filips. «Mental Voodoo» is «a bold and idiosyncratic ode to Black, queer bodies. Biting and alive. Layered, conceptual poetry, with a confessional undertone and fatalistic intent», according to Nigerian poet Dami Ajayi. «In the Nude» was nominated for the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets. February’s writing has also appeared in magazines such as Berlin Quarterly and The Guardian Life, as well as in Spanish, Italian and Dutch translation. The short film «Thrall» was an official selection of the ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival in 2025.
In 2020, February received the Future Awards Africa Prize for Literature and, in November of that year, took part in the Un_Masking Difference residency as a fellow of the Literary Colloquium Berlin. In 2024, February was a Literature Fellow of the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program, and in 2025 Poet in Residence at the Humboldt Forum in the Berlin Palace, as well as a Cave Canem Fellow. Logan February lives in Berlin.
Last Update: 2026
