NNEDI OKORAFOR was born April 8, 1974 in Cincinnati OH to Nigerian/Igbo immigrant parents. She received a master's degree in journalism at Michigan State University and a PhD in English at the University of Illinois, Chicago, and later worked as an associate professor at Chicago State University and the State University of New York. She attended the Clarion Writers Workshop in 2001 and, in 2024, she was inducted into …Read More