Arinze Ifeakandu

Arinze Ifeakandu was born in Kano, Nigeria. An AKO Caine Prize for African Writing finalist and A Public Space Writing Fellow, he is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His work has appeared in A Public Space, One Story, Kenyon Review, Guernica, and Redemption Song and Other Stories: The Caine Prize for African Writing 2018. His story “Happy is a Doing Word,” is a winner of the 2023 O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction. God’s Children Are Little Broken Things is Arinze Ifeakandu’s first book, and has received the 2023 Dylan Thomas Prize, the Story Prize Spotlight Award, the 2022 Republic of Consciousness Prize, Finalist for the 2022 Kirkus Prize for Fiction, and is a Finalist for the Lambda Literary Lammy Award for Gay Fiction.