b. 1995 in Kano, Nigeria; currently lives and works in Iowa, USA
Arinze Ifeakandu studied literature at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. He is a recent graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop where he had a Truman Capote Fellowship and won the 2018 Richard Yates Short Story Contest. Shortlisted for the 2017 AKO Caine Prize for African Writing, his short stories have appeared, among other places, in the Caine Prize Anthologies, One Story, and A Public Space where he was a 2015 APS Emerging Writer Fellow. He has short fiction forthcoming in Guernica; forthcoming as well is a Swedish translation of “God’s Children Are Little Broken Things”, a short story, from Aspekt förlag. His debut, a collection of stories, comes out in 2022 from A Public Space Books. He is currently working on a novel about love, race, dislocation, and OnlyFans.
