andriniki was born in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. He is a Cave Canem graduate fellow and has received fellowships from Poets House and The Poetry Project. He received his M.A. in Creative Writing and Education from Goldsmiths University of London and a B.A. in Political and Poetic Resistance from Brooklyn College. His writing has appeared in wildness, Indiana Review, Wasifiri, Montez Press, and elsewhere. He is the author of Quiet Fires, and the chaplet Living Btwn the Lines. andriniki is the founder of Quantum Archives: An Alt. Writing School, dedicated to archival and ancestral storytelling of inter-genre identities. He is currently at work on his debut novel Zero-Hours, a speculative dream.