Educated at Abraka, Ibadan and Owerri, Ebi Yeibo holds a PhD in English Language and teaches in the Department of English and Literary Studies, Niger Delta University, Wilberforce Island, Bayelsa State. He is the author of Of Waters and the Wild (2017), The Fourth Masquerade (2014), Shadows of the Setting Sun (2012), The Forbidden Tongue (2007), A Song for Tomorrow (2003) and Maiden Lines (1997). He was winner of the ANA/Maria Ajima Prize for Literary Criticism (2018), ANA Poetry Prize (2014) and the Isaac Boro Prize for Niger Delta Literature (2008). He was runner-up, ANA Poetry Prize (2017 and 2005) and Pat Utomi Book Prize for African Literature (2006); and was listed for the NLNG Nigeria Prize for Literature (2017). Ebi Yeibo has also won the ANA Bayelsa State Poetry Prize (2008), ANA Delta State Poetry Prize (2003 & 2004) and ANA Oyo State Poetry Prize (2000)., Nigeria.