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N.K. Iguh

N.K. Iguh (they/she) is a fiction writer and educator whose work centers immigrant identities and experiences. They have received grants and fellowships from the Center for Fiction, Vermont Studio Center, Jack Jones Literary Arts, Kimbilio, and the DISQUIET International Literary Program. Their writing has appeared in Guernica, the Los Angeles Review of Books, This Alien Nation: 36 True Tales of Immigration, and elsewhere.

Fiction

Black Estrangement

The Broken Window

By N.K. Iguh

Under the shadow of an international hotel chain, in a playground for Abuja’s wealthiest and whitest, where they go to buy meat pies and Cadbury chocolates and red seedless grapes, […]