“Rarely do we see political issues handled so beautifully”
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I am a polymath, working as a creative, strategic advisor and director of Echi Consultancy.
My work within the civic sector has covered a number of leadership roles within strategy, social policy and research, facilitation and strategic communication. Key to each of these roles has been cross disciplinary collaboration, informed by my creative practice. I have used these skills in a number of organisations including UN Women, the Equality and Human Rights Commission, Platform London, the RSA, Ten Years’ Time, and Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights UK.
I have also chaired events, spoken on a number of panels on education, climate and social justice and the role of art as a tool of activism.
Now, as Founder and Director of Echi, I’m interested in working through big and complicated ideas, deep systemic thinking, and understanding the ways we need to transform as a society, for the good of all of us.
As a creative, my writing has been featured in Elle, Vogue, i-D and ES Magazine amongst others, and I’ve been commissioned by many different cultural institutions such as Southbank, Somerset House and Wellcome Trust. My work has been translated into number of different languages and exhibited worldwide, most recently in the 2025 exhibition Drawn Breath, Exhaled Frequencies in Miami, Florida, U.S, at Locus Projects.
I have also performed with my poetry both nationally and internationally, notably at Glastonbury, Edinburgh Fringe and StAnza Poetry Festival, as well as a literary tour in Northern India with the British Council.
My poetry and essays have been widely featured in a variety of journals, short films and anthologies including the critically acclaimed anthology New Daughters of Africa, and more recently Nature Matters, an environmental anthology written by the global majority.
I was Young Poet Laureate for London 2015-6, a prestigious award that recognizes talent and potential in the capital. My debut chapbook, The Secrets I Let Slip, was published by Burning Eye Books in 2015 and is a Poetry Book Society recommendation. In 2019, I was shortlisted for the Brunel International African Poetry Prize and was a 2021 Arts Award Finalist for Environmental Writing.
My full-length collection, A Little Resurrection, also a Poetry Book Society recommendation, was published by Bloomsbury in 2022, and was an Irish Times book of the year, and my work was longlisted for the 2023 Forward prizes.
My debut essay collection, Black Climates, a creative and holistic exploration of race and climate justice, was published by Vintage in August 2025.
“Selina Nwulu demonstrates the possibilities of the poem as an act of creative revision. These nuanced, important, poems give us access to a reality so often erased by the ‘fluid prejudice’ of history.”