Nana Nkweti

Nana Nkweti is a Cameroonian-American writer, AKO Caine Prize finalist, and graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her award-winning work has garnered fellowships from MacDowell, Vermont Studio Center, Ucross, Byrdcliffe, Kimbilio, Hub City Writers, the Stadler Center for Poetry, the Wurlitzer Foundation, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Clarion West Writers Workshop. As a Professor of English, she teaches creative writing courses that explore her eclectic literary interests: ranging from graphic novels to medical humanities on to exploring works by female authors in genres such as horror, afrofuturism, and mystery.

When pried away from her keyboard sorcery, Nana loves cultural jaunts to theaters/art houses/dance performances, hunting rare finds in thrift shop bins, home decorating - her family teasingly calls her Martha (as in Stewart) and all things sci-fi (if it's got an intergalactic space ship or a spandexed superhero in it - she's there).