Iheoma Nwachukwu

Iheoma Nwachukwu played professional chess in Nigeria for a decade. He has won fellowships from the Michener Center for Writers, the Chinua Achebe Center for African Writers and Artists at Bard College, and the Mississippi Arts Commission. Nwachukwu’s writing has appeared in Ploughshares, Oxford American, Electric Literature, The Southern Review, and other venues. He is the winner of a Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, and his debut collection, Japa and Other Stories, was published in 2024 by the University of Georgia Press.