Yashika Graham’s 2024 debut poetry collection Some of Us Can Go Back Home was shortlisted for the 2025 OCM Bocas Prize for Poetry. An Honorary Fellow in the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program, she is a Jamaican writer, radio broadcaster, and the 2019 recipient of the Mervyn Morris Prize for poetry from the University of the West Indies, Mona where she received a BA in English Literature and twice won the Poetry Clash Competition. Her work has been published and presented internationally, and Graham hosts and produces The Ackee Pod(cast): Interviews with Writers.