Okwudili Nebeolisa

Okwudili Nebeolisa is the author of Terminal Maladies (Autumn House Press, 2024), winner of the 2023 Center for African American Poetry & Poetics Prize. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he was a provost fellow and was awarded the Prairie Lights John Leggett Prize for fiction. His poems have appeared, or are forthcoming, in the Cincinnati Review, Image, Poetry magazine, Sewanee Review, and Threepenny Review. His nonfiction has appeared in Catapult and Commonwealth Writers. Nebeolisa has received support from the Elizabeth George Foundation and the Granum Foundation. He is an MFA student in fiction at the University of Minnesota.