Tochukwu Okafor

Tochukwu Okafor holds a master’s degree from Carnegie Mellon University and is completing a Creative Writing MFA at Emerson College. He is a 2023 Kimbilio Fellow, a 2023 Oxbelly Fellow, a 2022 Kurt Brown Prize Winner for Fiction, and a 2018 Rhodes Scholar finalist. His work has appeared in the 2023 Latino Book Review Magazine, the 2019 Best Small Fictions, the 2018 Best of the Net, and Harvard University’s Transition Magazine. He has received scholarships, grants, and fellowships from the Elizabeth George Foundation, PEN America, Aspen Words, Vermont Studio Center, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Ucross Foundation, Fine Arts Work Center, Lighthouse Writers Workshop, Atlantic Center for the Arts, James Merrill House, Iceland Writers Retreat, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, and the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Arts (MASS MoCA). He is at work on a novel and a story collection.