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Ejiofor Ugwu

Ejiofor Ugwu is from Alor-Agu in Nsukka, Nigeria. He is an MFA student of poetry in the Creative Writing program at Syracuse University. His poetry and short fiction have been published in Guernica, African American Review, Public Pool, Sentinel Nigeria, the Kalahari Review, the Poetry Society (UK), the New Black Magazine, Drumtide Magazine, Poetry Society of America, Cordite Poetry Review, Elsewhere Lit, and the University of Nigeria’s journal, the Muse, for which he edited poetry for its 40th edition in 2012. He has worked as a journalist in Nigeria, reporting art and culture and human rights investigation, especially women’s rights violations. He has been interviewed for Geosi Reads, Botswana; Africa in Dialogue, Botswana; and Amherst College’s magazine, the Common. He has also been nominated for the Best New Poets (2016) and the Best of the Net (2015). He has a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Literary Studies from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. He is the author of the chapbook “The Book of God,” included in New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set (Nne).

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Authors, New Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set Series

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New Generation of African Poets:NNE

New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set (Nne)

The Book of God by Ejiofor Ugwu

The Book of God

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