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Onyinye Ihezukwu is an Assistant Professor in both the African/African American Studies Program and the Department of English Education at Earlham College. She holds a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Houston (in progress), an MFA from the University of Virginia (2015), and has held prestigious fellowships including the Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University. Her research focuses on fabulations, indigenous worldviews in African diasporic literatures, and Black speculative fiction. She teaches courses such as Introduction to Creative Writing, African American Literature, and Advanced Writing Workshop.
Education:
- PhD Candidate in Literature & Creative Writing, University of Houston
- MFA, University of Virginia (2015)
Research: Explores intersections of speculative traditions in African, Afro-Caribbean, and Afro-American literary frameworks. Her work re-centers indigenous narrative forms and decolonial storytelling.
Awards:
- Poe/Faulkner Fellowship
- Henfield Prize for Fiction (2014)
- Wallace Stegner Fellowship (2015-2017)
Teaching & Service: Courses include Reading and Writing Short Fiction, Topics in African/African American Literature. Member of the Association of Writers & Poets and African Studies Association.
