Episode 35: Adachioma Ezeano | University of Kentucky

Jared talks to O. Henry Prize winner Adachioma Ezeano of the University of Kentucky about finding her love of literature through Nigerian novels and folktales, learning craft from strong women, and workshopping without the gag order in favor of Crystal Wilkinson’s wild card critique musings.

Adachioma Ezeano is a 2021 O. Henry Prize recipient. She is a second-year fiction candidate in the MFA program at University of Kentucky. She is an alum of Purple Hibiscus Workshop. Her fiction appears or is forthcoming in McSweeney's Quarterly, Flashback Fiction, Isele Magazine, Best Small Fictions 2020, and The Best Short Stories 2021. She is Igbo, from Nigeria, and worked with First Bank Nigeria before moving to Kentucky for her MFA. She tweets @adachiomaezeano.

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· Flora Nwapa
· Sefi Atta
· Chinua Achebe
· Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
· Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
· Crystal Wilkinson
· Unbound Book Festival
· DaMaris B. Hill
· Hannah Pittard
· Julia Johnson
· Felicia Rose Chavez
· Sally Rooney
· New Limestone Review
· Li-Young Lee
· Madeline ffitch
· Keith Wilson
· Nicole Chung
· Frank X Walker