Onyinye Ihezukwu
Visiting assistant professor, English and African/African American Studies
Phone:765.983.1502
Email:[email protected]
Location: Carpenter Hall 309
Department: African/African American Studies Program
Department of English
Education
- PhD, Literature and Creative Writing, University of Houston
- MFA, University of Virginia
Why do you teach at Earlham?
Introduction to Creative Writing
Reading and Writing Short Fiction
African American Literature
Topics in African/African American Literature
Advanced Writing Workshop
About Me
Onyinye Ihezukwu is a writer from Nigeria. Her fiction has appeared in Zoetrope: All Story, The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The American Scholar, among others. She received her MFA in 2015 from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, where she was awarded the Poe/Faulkner fellowship, as well as the 2014 Henfield Prize for fiction. She held a 2015-2017 Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University, and is currently earning a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Houston.
Professional Memberships
Association of Writers and Poets
African Studies Association
Scholarly Interest
Fabulations and indigenous worldviews in African, Afro-Caribbean and Afro- American literature.
Black Speculative Fiction