about me

Onyinye Ihezukwu was born in Nigeria where she worked as a broadcaster. Before broadcasting, she worked with an independent theater enterprise as an actress, project director and playwright. Her fiction largely explores changing socio-spiritual themes in the urban Nigerian setting. Her fiction has appeared in Zoetrope: All Story, The Virginia Quarterly Review, The American Scholar, The St. Petersburg Review, among others. She received her MFA in 2014 from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, where she was awarded the Poe/Faulkner fellowship, as well as the 2014 Henfield Prize for fiction. She holds a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Houston and a 2015-2017 Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University. She is an Assistant Professor of English and African/African American Literature at Earlham College.