Anthony Okpunor is an emerging Nigerian writer who discovered poetry and writing in general, as a better form of self expression. He is a student of the University of Benin, Nigeria at the time. He was shortlisted for the 2019 Nigerian Student Poetry Prize. He was also shortlisted for the SEVHAGE/Angya Poetry Prize 2019. He emerged as winner of the 2019 Kreative Diadem Annual Creative Writing Contest (poetry category) for his poem, Ode to Our Body on Fire.