Boy, on the night your mother brought you into this noisy, miserable world, at exactly 11:18 pm, on a rainy Thursday, your father reclined in his Toyota car outside the Emergency Unit and sucked on the titties of a...
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Tochukwu Okafor
Tochukwu Okafor is an MFA Fiction candidate at Emerson College and holds a master’s degree from Carnegie Mellon University. He is a 2021 – 2023 Book Project Fellow at Lighthouse Writers’ Workshop, a 2022 Ucross Foundation Fellow, a 2022 Kurt Brown Prize for Fiction winner, a 2021 PEN America Emerging Voices Fellow, a 2021 Gish Jen Fiction Fellow, an alumnus of the 2021 Tin House Workshop, a 2018 Rhodes Scholar finalist, a 2018 Kathy Fish Fellow, and a 2017 Short Story Day Africa Prize for Short Fiction winner. His work has appeared in the 2019 Best Small Fictions, the 2018 Best of the Net, and elsewhere, and he reads for Ploughshares. He has received scholarships, fellowships, grants, and residencies from the John Anson Kittredge Fund, the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Aspen Words, the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Arts (MASS MoCA), Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Kenyon Review Writers’ Workshop, GrubStreet, Worcester Arts Council, and elsewhere. He lives in Worcester, MA.