Hussain Ahmed is the author of four poetry collections, including Sing, Sky (Carnegie Mellon University Press) winner of the Tayur Poetry Prize, Crossroad Mirror (Curbstone Books / Northwestern University Press) shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Prize and the Ohio Book Award, Blue Exodus (Orison Books) winner of the 2022 Orison poetry prize and Soliloquy with the Ghosts in Nile (Black Ocean Press), a 2023 poetry award honoree by the Society of Midland Authors.

Ahmed authored a chapbook Harp in a Fireplace. His poems recently won the Gulf Coast Poetry Prize and the Black Warrior Review Poetry Contest. His works have been featured in Poetry Magazine, Kenyon Review, American Poetry Review, The Nation, Best American Poetry, Massachusetts Review, A Public Space and elsewhere. A Nigerian poet, and environmentalist, he holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Ahmadu Bello University, Master of Science from Obafemi Awolowo University,  Master of Fine Arts from University of Mississippi and is completing a PhD from the University of Cincinnati.