Uche Okonkwo

Uche Okonkwo’s debut collection, A Kind of Madness, was published by Tin House Books in 2024. It was a finalist for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work––Debut Author. Her stories have been published in A Public Space, One Story, The Kenyon Review, and Ploughshares, among other publications, as well as the anthologies The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2019 and Lagos Noir. She holds an MFA in fiction from Virginia Tech and a PhD in English from University of Nebraska–Lincoln. A former Bernard O’Keefe Scholar at Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and resident at Art Omi, she is a recipient of the George Bennett Fellowship at Phillips Exeter Academy, a Steinbeck Fellowship, and an Elizabeth George Foundation grant. Okonkwo grew up in Lagos, Nigeria.