Work

Books

A Kind of Madness (short story collection) published by Tin House (US), April 2024

A Kind of Madness (UK edition) published by Verve Books, 2025

A Kind of Madness (Nigerian edition) forthcoming from Narrative Landscape Press, 2025

Publications

‘Animals’ in Zyzzyva

‘Burning’ in Kenyon Review, May/June 2022

‘Harvesters’ in A Public Space No. 30

‘Our Belgian Wife’ in The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2019 anthology

‘Our Belgian Wife’ in One Story

‘The Girl Who Lied’ in Ploughshares (solo 5.5)

‘The Girl Who Lied’ in A Long House

‘Eden’ in Lagos Noir by Akashic Books

‘Long Hair’ in Per Contra Issue 40

‘The Mattress’ in Ellipsis Volume 52

‘Shadow’ in Ember Volume 2 Issue 1

‘Manna’ in AFREADA

Excerpt from ‘What the Road Offers’ in Saraba: The Transitions Issue

‘What the Road Offers’: published as an Invisible Borders travel essay chapbook

Awards and Honors

2025 Reading the West Book Awards longlist: Debut Fiction category

2025 NAACP Image Award Nominee: Outstanding Literary Work – Debut Author category

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA) 50th Anniversary Fellowship/Residency (summer 2023)

Elizabeth George Foundation grant recipient (2023)

Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts residency, summer 2022

Tin House scholarship (summer 2022)

The Anderson Center at Tower View residency (summer 2021)

Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies award (Steinbeck Fellowship) 2021-2022

Phillips Exeter Academy George Bennett Fellow/Writer-in-Residence, 2020-2021

Bernard O’Keefe Fiction Scholarship, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference 2019

Art Omi Writers’ Residency (spring 2017)