Chigozie Obioma was born in 1986 in Akure, Nigeria. His short stories have appeared in the Virginia Quarterly Review and New Madrid. He was a fall 2012 Omi Fellow at Ledig House in New York. Obioma has lived in Nigeria, Cyprus, and Turkey and currently resides in the United States, where he has completed an MFA in creative writing at the University of Michigan. The Fishermen is his first novel.
