The Freedom of Reinvention: an Interview with Morgan Thomas

Elinam Agbo was born in Agona Swedru, Ghana, and raised in Central Kansas. She holds a BA from the University of Chicago and an MFA in fiction from the University of Michigan’s Helen Zell Writers’ Program, where she co-founded MQR Mixtape. A graduate of the Clarion Workshop, she was the 2021–2023 Kenyon Review Fellow in Prose. Her writing has appeared in Apogee, American Short Fiction, Nimrod, PEN America Best Debut Short Stories 2018, and elsewhere. She is currently an Assistant Professor of English-Creative Writing at Bucknell University.