Kosiso Ugwueze is a writer, editor, and creative writing professor. Her short fiction has appeared in Georgia Review, Joyland, Gulf Coast, Subtropics, The New England Review, and the Best American Short Stories anthology, where she is the first Nigerian and Nigerian American writer to be featured in the 100 year old anthology. Kosiso is the winner of a New England Review Award for Emerging Writers and the recipient of a Barbara Deming Memorial Fund grant for feminist fiction. Other recognition includes residencies and fellowships from the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Ox-Bow School of Art, the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference, and the Vermont Studio Center. In 2025, Kosiso will be in residence at the Swiss Swatch Art Peace Hotel in Shanghai where she’ll be conducting research for a transnational and transcontinental novel-in-progress titled Arithmetic, which was a recent finalist for the Atria/Simon & Schuster First Novel Prize. Kosiso’s work has been performed as part of Middlebury University’s Out Loud Program and has been featured in the Vermont Studio Center’s Writers on the Rise series. She is a graduate of the MFA program in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University where she was the managing editor of The Hopkins Review as well as a recipient of the Dr. Benjamin J. Sankey Fellowship in fiction, an award given for the best graduating student. Kosiso was recently the senior editor at The Hopkins Review and a lecturer in creative writing at Johns Hopkins University and Goucher College, both in Baltimore, Maryland. She is currently an assistant professor of creative writing at the California State University in Northridge. Prior to writing, she was a strategy consultant in Washington, DC where she worked on key aspects of the implementation of the Obama Administration’s Affordable Care Act. She holds two undergraduate degrees from the University of Southern California and graduated cum laude with Renaissance Scholar Honors for her interdisciplinary work in English and creative writing and international relations. She was born in wonderful Enugu, Nigeria and raised in sunny Southern California.