Kosiso Ugwueze is an award-winning 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 recipient of a New England Review Award for Emerging Writers and the winner 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 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. She was recently the senior editor at The Hopkins Review and a lecturer in creative writing at Johns Hopkins University. Kosiso currently teaches creative writing at the California State University in Northridge. Born in Enugu, Nigeria, she was raised in Southern California.