Iheoma Nwachukwu
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| Born | Lagos, Nigeria |
| Nationality | Nigerian |
| Alma mater | University of Calabar |
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Iheoma Nwachukwu was born in Lagos, Nigeria where he worked at his father's advertisement agency and attended undergrad at[1] the University of Calabar), intending to study Medicine, but later switching to Biochemistry. He wrote for the departmental magazine, Jungle Jim[2], played on the school chess team, and won a campus-wide chess tourney.
He won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction[3] for 2023. Binyavanga Wainaina awarded him the inaugural Chinua Achebe Center for Writers Fellowship[4] in 2010. Subsequent winners are Teju Cole[5] and Igoni Barret. In 2011, he won a Michener Center fellowship[6] to study fiction in the US, at the University of Texas, at Austin. That same year he attended the Internazionale Writers Festival[7] in Ferrara Italy, alongside Booker Prize winner Arundhati Roy[8], and the renowned Kenyan author, Binyavanga Wainaina[9], sitting on a panel[10] where he discussed the future trajectory of African writers in the world. After completing his MFA, Nwachukwu joined Florida State University and while earning his doctorate in English/Creative Writing at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida, he closely worked with the Pulitzer Laureate, Robert Olen Butler.[11]
As one of the leading Afrofuturists today, he has been published in the prestigious Sunspot Jungle anthology[12], and was invited to speak at the Zora Neale Hurston Festival where his lecture was incorporated into the syllabus at the University of Central Florida.[13]
His appearance at the prestigious Word of South Festival[14] in Tallahassee, Florida, was favorably anticipated by the local media.[15]
He appeared in Eclectica Magazine's 20th Anniversary anthology[16] of Speculative Fiction with the Magical Realism story The Seven Thousand Year Old Spirit.[17]
Nwachukwu's recent fiction has appeared in literary magazines such as the Southern Review,[18] Iowa Review,[19] Ploughshares,[20] and Agni.[21] He has held faculty positions at the University of Scranton and is currently an Assistant Professor of English at the W Mississippi University for Women. In 2023, he was awarded the esteemed literary grant by the Mississippi Arts Commission.[22]
References
- ↑ "Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction 2023". UGA Press. 18 September 2023. Retrieved 2023-09-23.
- ↑ "The evolution of African pulp fiction". news.yahoo.com. 6 December 2012. Retrieved 2023-01-29.
- ↑ "Iheoma Nwachukwu wins the 2023 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction". September 18, 2023.
- ↑ Relations, Bard Public. "Chinua Achebe Center at Bard College and Chimurenga Launch "Pilgrimages" Project to Send 14 Writers to 14 Cities Across Africa | Bard College Public Relations". www.bard.edu.
- ↑ Cole, Teju. "Teju Cole". Retrieved 2023-01-29.
- ↑ "Creative Writing". creativewritingmfa.info. Retrieved 2023-01-29.
- ↑ "Iheoma Nwachukwu Festival Ferrara". Internazionale.
- ↑ "Arundhati Roy Festival Ferrara". Internazionale.
- ↑ "Binyavanga Wainaina Festival Ferrara". Internazionale.
- ↑ "This is just the Beginning. The new Voices of African Culture" – via www.youtube.com.
- ↑ "Robert Olen Butler | The English Department". english.fsu.edu. Retrieved 2023-01-29.
- ↑ https://catalog.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/39306614
- ↑ "2020-2021 ZORA! Festival Afrofuturism Syllabus - Week 12 - Dr. Iheoma Nwachukwu on The Reality of Afrofuturism | ZORA! Festival Academic Conference: 2020-2021 Afrofuturism Syllabus | University of Central Florida". stars.library.ucf.edu.
- ↑ "Iheoma Nwachukwu – Word of South". December 30, 2019.
- ↑ Davidson-Hiers, C. D. "5th annual Word of South music and literature festival returns to Cascades Park this weekend". Tallahassee Democrat.
- ↑ "From the Editors - Eclectica Magazine v21n2". www.eclectica.org.
- ↑ "The Seven-Thousand-Year-Old Spirit—Iheoma Nwachukwu—Eclectica Magazine v17n3". www.eclectica.org.
- ↑ "The Southern Review : Contributors: Iheoma Nwachukwu". thesouthernreview.org. Retrieved 2023-01-29.
- ↑ Nwachukwu, Iheoma (2017-02-28). "Train Juju". The Iowa Review. 47 (1). doi:10.17077/0021-065X.31796. ISSN 2330-0361.
- ↑ "Iheoma Nwachukwu | Ploughshares". www.pshares.org. Retrieved 2023-01-29.
- ↑ "Iheoma Nwachukwu". AGNI Online. 2022-04-13. Retrieved 2023-01-29.
- ↑ "Grant Recipients". Mississippi Arts Commission. Retrieved 2023-01-29.
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