Riak Marial Riak is a South Sudanese poet and writer. He hails from Yerul, Lakes State. His poetry is seeking to answer questions of depression, life, death, nature and freedom. His works have featured and forthcoming on Kalahari review, African writer, Ngiga review, Nthanda review, BNAP, Nationalism, Eunoia review and Brittle paper. He's the author of Poetry book titled Broken Maps.