BIO

Ogochukwu Bibiana Ossai, a Nigerian fiction writer based in Texas, Lubbock, is a Ph.D. Fiction student at Texas Tech University. She holds an MFA from Long Island University, Brooklyn, where she received the Marilyn Boutwell Graduate Award in Fiction. Bibiana is a managing editor of the Iron Horse literary magazine and has been supported by prestigious fellowships and scholarships, including Anaphora Literary Arts writing residency, the Hatty Fitts Walker Scholarship from the Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, The Poetry Project, and an Idyllwild Arts Writers Week fellowship. She was recognized as a longlisted finalist for the 2023 Uncharted Voyage anthology 2 and won the 2019 Equinox Journal Poetry Contest. Her works have been featured in The Kalahari Review, African Writer Magazine, The Dark Magazine, and Flash Fiction Magazine, among others.