Daniel Naawenkangua Abukuri (he/him) is a Black poet and prose writer from Ghana. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Transition Magazine, The Malahat Review, Colorado Review, Chestnut Review, Orion Magazine, North American Review, Protean Magazine, GEIST, Berkeley Poetry Review, Mantis, Minyan Magazine, Wildscape, Decolonial Passage, 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 first-place winner of the African Writers Award (Poetry), a winner of Poetry Archive Now! Wordview 2025, a finalist for the 2025 Adinkra Poetry Prize, runner-up for the 2026 Cambridge Poetry Prize, and was longlisted for the Renard Press Poetry Prize. He is an Obsidian Foundation Fellow alum and was featured in the Obsidian Foundation Showcase with The Poetry Society.