Somto Ihezue

Somto Ihezue (He/Him) is an Igbo writer, editor, and filmmaker. He is a Creative Writing MFA student at the University of Maryland, and an alumnus of Clarion West, Tin House, and Milford SF workshops. His works have appeared/are forthcoming in Reactor, Clarkesworld, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, POETRY Magazine, Uncanny, Strange Horizons, NIGHTMARE, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Podcastle, Flash Fiction Online, and others. His work has been shortlisted for the British Fantasy Award (Sydney J. Bounds Awards), the Nommo Awards, the Utopia Awards, and has equally been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and the British Science Fiction Award. He is the assistant editor of the NEArts and SFWA-sponsored Publishing Taught Me Anthology, and co-editor of Will This Be A Problem Anthology. Visit his website for more information.