Proph Dauda

Proph Dauda is a writer and dog breeder who, for the most part, was raised by American missionaries at the Passion Center for Children in the small town of Zomba, Malawi. He taught History and Literature for five years at a private secondary school founded by the Scottish missionaries, the Henry Henderson Institute in Blantyre, Malawi. In his spare time, he volunteered as a Kennel Attendant at Blantyre Society for the Protection and Care of Animals (BSPCA). Later, he enrolled in Auburn University’s Master of Arts in English program. At Auburn, he served as a Teaching Assistant for core Literature, as well as the Assistant Managing Editor for the Southern Humanities Review, a graduate student-run literary magazine. His writing explores cultural values, social stratum, superstition, and the experiences of migrants arriving on the shores of America. His fiction has appeared in the Kansas State University’s Touchstone Literary Magazine. In 2023, his poetry received an honorable mention for the Robert Hughes Mount Jr. Prize in Poetry, sponsored by the Academy of American Poets at Auburn University. In the same year, he served as a judge for the Poetry Out Loud Contest for Auburn High School in Alabama.