Overview
Habiba Dokubo Asari (often writing as H.B. Asari) is a Niger Deltan prose and poetry writer. Her work explores current and possible future climate realities, complicated familial bonds and the nuances of queer coming-of-age. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2023 and the Climate Change Poetry Prize 2022, and won the Stephen A. DiBiase Poetry Prize 2024. She has been published in adda, CRAFT, Strange Horizons, FIYAH, and more. Her work has been supported by Brooklyn Poets, Fine Arts Work Center, Tin House, and the CANEX Book Factory. She is working on a novel and short story collection that seamlessly integrate all her interests.