Iheọma Uzọmba

performance poet. multimedia artist. filmmaker.

Born in Nigeria and now based in Canada, Iheoma Uzomba goes by the stage name Oma is Loud. Her work spans spoken word poetry and multimedia storytelling. Her writing has appeared in Prairie Schooner, Rattle Magazine, Palette Poetry, The Chestnut Review, The Shore Poetry and other journals, earning honours such as the Glenna Luschei Award for Poetry (2025) and the Lagos–London Poetry Prize (2022). A two-time winner of the Calgary Poetry Slam (2025) and the Vancouver Poetry Slam (2025), she is a Poetry Translation Center (UK) UNDERTOW Fellow. Currently serving as Artist-in-Residence with the Libraries and Cultural Resources at the University of Calgary, she is conducting archival research on the Edith Fowke Fonds, culminating in a multidisciplinary theatre production titled Pretty Dangerous: Four Acts on Historical Womanhood (2026). A stark raving mad poet, she stays wild in her musings until 9 pm or so.