Logan February (b. 1999; they/he) is a nonbinary Nigerian poet based in Berlin.
Their work explores themes of desire, psychospirituality, and Afro-queer identity through poetry, essays, performance, film, and translation. February holds a B.Sc in Psychology from the University of Ibadan in Nigeria, and an MFA in Creative Writing from Purdue University in the USA. They were Editor-in-Chief at Sycamore Review, and also edited the community folio Queering the Nigerian Divine in 2023. Their books include In the Nude (Ouida Poetry, 2019) and Mental Voodoo (Engeler Verlag/Poesie Dekolonie, 2024, translated by Christian Filips with Peter Dietze).
A recipient of the Future Awards Africa Prize for Literature, Logan February has received fellowships from the Cave Canem Foundation, the DAAD Berliner-Künstlerprogramm, the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion, the Literaturhaus Wien, and the Akademie der Künste’s Junge Akademie. In 2025, they were the premier poet-in-residence at the Humboldt Forum.
February works across genres and has collaborated with composers, dramaturgs, filmmakers, percussionists, photographers and sound artists. Their short film Thrall was an official selection at the 2025 ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival. In 2026, they hosted Poetry Night at the internationales Literaturfestival Berlin.
