Author, Terminal Maladies @AutumnHousePrs '24, @CAAPPoetics Book Prize winner @IowaWritersWksp ’22 @MinnesotaMFA ’26 Elizabeth George Fdn Grantee ’23
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I am so thrilled to share with you the cover of my book Terminal Maladies, and also announce that it’s available for pre-order, if you’re interested, at the link below:
autumnhouse.org/books/termin…
A minister once told me to embrace my sorrow.
To hell with that, I said, embrace your own.
— BH Fairchild
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The writers I most admire never use a careless word. Their sentences are unimprovable.
— Judith Thurman
I'm so happy to have made the 2026 Miles Morland Writing Scholarship to work on a book length prose manuscript. Gratitude to the judges and the readers.
Nebeolisa Okwudili retweeted
nobody in the world can look at this little girl and think she’s 16 idgaf what she said
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Wangari Maathai was the first female professor in Kenya and the first African woman to be awarded the #NobelPeacePrize. She founded the Green Belt Movement, which led to the planting of millions of trees.
Today we announce the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize.
ALT Wangari Maathai, smiling, holds a potted plant, dressed in a bright blue and yellow traditional dress and matching headscarf.
He asked me how much I loved him. I said I didn't know how much love could be measured.
— Helen Garner
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Nebeolisa Okwudili retweeted
The rumors are true. After years of drafts, revisions, and more revisions, Exodus finally has a cover. My debut essay collection arrives March 2, 2027, from @CavanKerryPress. Big shout-out to Julia Robbins of the Office of Public Scholarship at WashU for making the video reel.
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That university in Nsukka is supposed to have an archive of Igbo culture but why would they do something like that when they can do other important things like being evil to their students.
I'm so happy to have a short story in the latest issue of @GeorgiaReview . Thanks to Gerald Maa and Amy Bonnaffons for welcoming it. Been working on this story for a long time, so glad it's now out in the world. Here's a sneak peak
Babies themselves make poor characters in novels. They may have personality but they have very little moral agency.
— Anne Enright
In 1993, when Morrison won the Nobel Prize, men, including one Nobel winner, asked me, ‘Is she that good?’ as though I might know this in some way they could not. I could read like a woman, perhaps.
— Anne Enright
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I'm happy to announce that my anthology of Black sea writing, I Will Take to the Water: An Anthology of African Americans and the Sea, is scheduled to be published by the University of Chicago Press in December 2026. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books…
ALT The cover of the book features a painting of a Black man in storm-damaged boat on a stormy ocean, with sharks circling the boat.
