Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto (@ChinuaEzenwa) lives in Lincoln, NE where he is pursuing his Ph.D. in English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln with a focus on Creative Writing (poetry). A MacPhee fellow, 2022- 2023. He became a runner-up in Etisalat Prize for Literature, Flash Fiction, 2014. He won the Castello di Duino Poesia Prize for an unpublished poem, 2018 and the Eriata Oribhabor Poetry Prize (EOPP 2018). He was the recipient of the New Hampshire Institute of Art’s 2018 Writing Award, and also the recipient of the New Hampshire Institute of Art’s 2018 scholarship to the MFA Program. In 2019, he was the winner of the Sevhage/Angus Poetry Prize and second runner-up in the 5th Singapore Poetry Contest. He was shortlisted for the Alpine poetry fellowship, 2023. His works have appeared in Isele Magazine, AFREADA, Poet Lore, Massachusetts Review, Frontier, Palette, Malahat Review, The Common, Southword Magazine, Vallum, Mud Season Review, Salamander, Notra Dame, Anmly, Up the Staircase Quarterly, Spectacle Magazine, Ruminate and elsewhere.

Toby Nwoke is a screenwriter based in Lagos. A fresh voice; he writes from a vantage point where he melds his own unique art with the resonant techniques of the older generation of Nigerian writers who were made in Nsukka: the Achebes, the Adichies, the Okigbos. He led the Okike Literary Society for 3 years before handing over in 2016.

Chideraa  Ike-Akaenyi is an Igbo writer. Her fiction and non-fiction have appeared in Agbowo, Itanile, Ngiga Review and Kreative Diadem. She holds a degree in Literature and was a finalist for the 2021 Awele Creative Trust Prize for Fiction. She’s currently one of the eight young Nigerian writers selected as participants of the EIO workshop, 2023