Elinam Agbo is a writer, editor, and teacher of Creative Writing. Born in Agona Swedru, Ghana and raised in Kansas, she holds a BA from the University of Chicago and an MFA in fiction from the University of Michigan’s Helen Zell Writers’ Program. A graduate of the Clarion Workshop, she was the 2021-2023 Kenyon Review Fellow in Prose. Her writing has appeared in Apogee, American Short Fiction, Nimrod, the Best Debut Short Stories 2018, and elsewhere.

As of August 2023, she is an Assistant Professor in English-Creative Writing at Bucknell University.

Photo: Colin Shepherd

Photo: Colin Shepherd