Chika Unigwe

Chika Unigwe is the author of Night Dancer, On Black Sisters’ Street (Random House), and Better Never Than Late (Cassava Republic). Her work has been translated into several languages (including French and German) and won the 2012 Nigeria Prize for Literature. Her stories and essays have appeared in The Guardian, The New York Times, Al Jazeera, Guernica, The Kenyon Review, Agni, and Mslexia. Born in Enugu, Nigeria, Unigwe is a professor of writing at Georgia College and State University, Milledgeville, where she sits on the MFA faculty, and is a guest lecturer at Erasmus Hoge School, Brussels. She writes a regular column for Daily Trust Nigeria and contributes often as a guest columnist to MO* Belgium. She divides her time between Milledgeville and Atlanta where she lives with her family. Her new novel will be out in the USA and United Kingdom in 2023.