Oladosu Michael Emerald (he/him) is an art editor at Surging Tide magazine, a poet, a writer, a digital/musical/visual artist, a photographer, a footballer, a boxer, and a political scientist.
He is the author of the self-help book, "A STEP BEYOND FAILURE," published in 2020 and the poetry chapbook, "Berceuse Of Broken Pots," published by The Naked Cat Lit.
His works have been published or forthcoming in many magazines and won numerous awards in writing and art; a few to mention: Better Than Starbucks, Flash Frog, Icefloe Press, Undivided magazine, Feral, Afrocritik, Providus bank anthology alongside Professor Wole Soyinka, Oriire, Necro magazine, Ev0ke, shortlisted in Paradise Gate poetry contest (top ten), shortlisted in AprilCentaur essay competition. , Madness Muse Press, Cultural Daily, Spill Word Web, Paper Lantern Lit, the maul magazine, Zoetic, Pinch Journal, penumbric, Motheaten magazine, native skin, Nymph, Naija Reader's Buffet, Terror House Magazine, Spring word web, Third Estate Art magazine, thehearth magazine, kalonipa, and elsewhere.
He's a man who does not know how to give up, and art chose him before he existed.
Say hi to him on Twitter @garricologist and Instagram @garrycologist