Olufunke Ogundimu

Born in Lagos, Nigeria, Olufunke Ogundimu is an Assistant Professor of English at Mississippi State University, a Fiction Editor at Callaloo, and a Research Editor at the African Poetry Digital Portal. She holds a Ph.D. in English with specializations in Creative Writing, Ethnic Studies, and Digital Humanities from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and an MFA from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas International program in fiction. Ogundimu is a Pushcart Prize winner, Caine Prize for African Writing finalist, and a Miles Morland Writing Scholarship finalist and has received fellowships and awards from the Farafina Trust Creative Writing Workshop, FEMRITE African Women Writers’ Residency, Anaphora Residency, LARB/USC Publishing Workshop, Atlantic Centre for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, and Mississippi Arts Commission. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Southern Review, Poets & Writers, Narrative, Massachusetts Review, Black Warrior Review, Transition Magazine, New Orleans Review, Johannesburg Review of Books, Red Rock Review, Prairie Schooner, and many other places.