Kosiso Ugwueze is a writer, editor, and creative writing professor. Her short fiction has appeared in Georgia Review, Joyland, Gulf Coast, Subtropics, The New England Review, and the Best American Short Stories anthology. Kosiso is the winner of a New England Review Award for Emerging Writers and the recipient of a Barbara Deming Memorial Fund grant for feminist fiction. Other recognition includes residencies and fellowships from the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Ox-Bow School of Art, and the Vermont Studio Center. Kosiso’s work has been performed as part of Middlebury University’s Out Loud Program and has been featured in the Vermont Studio Center’s Writers on the Rise series. She is a graduate of the MFA program in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University where she was the managing editor of The Hopkins Review as well as a recipient of the Dr. Benjamin J. Sankey Fellowship in fiction. Kosiso was recently the senior editor at The Hopkins Review and a lecturer in creative writing at Johns Hopkins University. She currently teaches creative writing at the California State University in Northridge. Born in Enugu, Nigeria, she was raised in Southern California.