Saddiq Dzukogi is a Nigerian poet and assistant professor at Mississippi State University's Department of English. He is the author of Your Crib, My Qibla, a highly-acclaimed poetry collection which has earned him the 2022 Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry, and the 2021 Julie Suk Award as a co-winner. The collection was also shortlisted for the $100,000 Nigeria Prize for Literature.

Dzukogi is the author of Inside the Flower Room, which Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani selected for the APBF New-Generation African Poets Chapbook Series (2018). His poems have appeared in Poetry Magazine, Kenyon Review, Guernica, Georgia Review, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, Cincinnati Review and Narrative Magazine.

Dzukogi was a finalist for the 2017 Brunel International African Poetry Prize. His poem "Paradise" won him the 2021 Wilbur Gaffney Poetry Prize. He was the first runner-up for the 2022 Maureen Egan Writers Exchange Award, and the winner of the 2024 Narrative Magazine Poetry Prize. He has also been a three-time finalist for the Association of Nigerian Authors' Poetry Prize in 2012, 2014, and 2016.

The anthology was selected as one of Oprah Daily's 29 best poetry books in America for 2021. It was also named one of the 50 Notable African Books of 2021 by the Africa Centre and Brittle Paper, as one of the 20 must-read literary books of 2021 in the Africa Report

Dzukogi was at different times a recipient of several fellowships and grants from the Nebraska Arts Council, Mississippi Arts Commission, PEN America, the Obsidian Foundation, the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, the Ebedi International Writers Residency, and Cave Canem. His next book is the epic poem, Bakandamiya: An Elegy (University of Nebraska Press 2025).