Discipline: Literature – fiction

Ladi Opaluwa

Discipline: Literature – fiction
Region: Abuja, NIGERIA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2017

Ladi Opaluwa is a Nigerian writer based in Abuja. Her work has appeared in Litro Magazine and forthcoming in Electric Literature and elsewhere. At MacDowell, she worked on her first novel. She was shortlisted for the Morland Writing Scholarship in 2015.

Studios

Mansfield

Ladi Opaluwa worked in the Mansfield studio.

The Helen Coolidge Mansfield Studio was donated by graduates of the Mansfield War Service Classes for Reconstruction Aides. Helen Mansfield helped found the New York MacDowell Club. The small, shingled frame structure with stone foundation was originally fronted on the west side by a neat white picket fence and gate, a garden, and a stone pathway…

Learn more