Author

Somto Ihezue is a writer and filmmaker. He is an MFA fellow in creative writing at the University of Maryland. Somto writes about longing, childhood, land, and joy in Igbo communities. His work has won the Perkoff Prize and the Locus Award and has been a finalist for the Nebula Award, the British Fantasy Award, the ALCS Tom-Gallon Trust Award, the Ignyte, and the Nommo Award. His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Clarkesworld Magazine, POETRY, Reckoning, Strange Horizons, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and others. His work has received support from the McCormack Writing Center, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Clarion West, Sundress Academy for the Arts, Rabbit Island, Good Hart, and more. He is the co-editor of Will This Be a Problem? The Anthology.