Uche Okonkwo’s stories have been published in A Public Space, One Story, the Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2019, and Lagos Noir, among others. A former Bernard O’Keefe Scholar at Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and resident at Art Omi, she is a recipient of the George Bennett Fellowship at Phillips Ex¬eter Academy and a Steinbeck Fellowship.
Her debut short story collection, A Kind of Madness, was published by Tin House in April 2024. Okonkwo grew up in Lagos, Nigeria, and is currently pursuing a creative writing Ph.D. at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
While at MacDowell, Okonkwo revised drafts of two short story collections and an early draft of a potential novel manuscript.
