Onyinye Ihezukwu was born in Nigeria. Her work has appeared in Zoetrope: All Story, The Virginia Quarterly Review, The American Scholar, among others. She held a 2015–2017 Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University, and is currently earning a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Houston.
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This short story appears in the LARB Print Quarterly Journal: No. 19, Romance To receive the LARB Quarterly Journal, ...
Open to any author writing in English about the Chicanx/Latinx experience, the Rivera Book Prize is committed to the discovery and fostering of extraordinary writing by a first-time or early career author whose work examines the long and varied contributions of Chicanx/Latinx in the US. The Rivera Book Prize aims to provide a platform that showcases the emerging literary talent of the Chicanx/Latinx community, to cultivate the next generation of Chicanx/Latinx writers, and to continue the rich literary memory of Tomás Rivera, Chicano author, poet, activist, and educator.
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