Iheoma Nwachukwu grew up in Lagos, Nigeria, under the repressive military regimes of Muhammadu Buhari, Ibrahim Babangida, and Sani Abacha, partaking in democracy riots from a young age. After working as a Chinese herbal medicine salesman for a few years while writing, he won a fellowship to come to the US for graduate school.

He won the inaugural Chinua Achebe Center for African Writers fellowship. He has also won a Michener Center fellowship, a Bailey fellowship, and a Mississippi Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship.

Iheoma’s writing has appeared in Italy’s Internazionale, Electric Literature, The Southern Review, The lowa Review and other venues. His fiction has earned a Pushcart Prize Special mention, and a Best American Short Stories
Notable. Iheoma is working on a novel and a short story collection.

He is an Assistant Professor at Eastern University.