Ikechukwu Roy Udeh-Ubaka

Ikechukwu Roy Udeh-Ubaka is a fiction Ph.D. candidate, with an M.F.A. from the University of Florida. His work has won both the Gerald Kraak Award and the Masters Review Award, and has appeared or been anthologized in McSweeney’s Quarterly, Wasafiri, Lolwe, Bakwa Magazine, The Gerald Kraak Anthology, 14: The Inward Gaze, and the Masters Review Anthology XI, amongst others. He is also a finalist for the Sisters in Crime Pride Award, the Globe Soup Short Story Award, and the Awele Creative Trust Award, and was profiled in Electric Literature as "One of the Most Promising New Voices of Nigerian Fiction." He has studied creative writing under the tutelage of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, David Leavitt, Dave Eggers, Tash Aw, Camille Bordas and Uwem Akpan. His novel-in-progress and short story collection are currently being preempted by a few publishers.