Ukamaka Olisakwe is an assistant professor of screenwriting and fiction at Weber State
University and also the Editor-in-Chief of Isele Magazine. She is a UNESCO Africa39 honoree, a
University of Iowa IWP fellow, a VCFA Emerging Writer Scholarship winner, a Morland
Foundation Scholarship finalist, a Gerald Kraak Prize runner-up, and a Nommo Best Novel
Award finalist. Her stories and essays have appeared in the New York Times, Granta, The
Republic, Guernica, Longreads, The Rumpus, Catapult, Google Arts & Culture, and elsewhere.
The author of Ogadinma (2020) and Don’t Answer When They Call Your Name (2023), she co-
wrote the TV series, Agoodjie, for Canal+ / StudioCanal, which is now in pre-production.