Chinelo Okparanta

Chinelo Okparanta
Born	Port Harcourt, Nigeria
Occupation	novelist, short story writer
Nationality	Nigeria; United States
Period	2010s
Notable works	Happiness, Like Water, Under the Udala Trees
Website
http://www.chinelookparanta.com/

Chinelo Okparanta is a Nigerian-American writer. Born and raised in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, she emigrated to the United States with her family at the age of 10.

Chinelo Okparanta was educated at Pennsylvania State University, Rutgers University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop.

Okparanta has published short stories in publications including Granta, The New Yorker, Tin House, The Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, TriQuarterly, Conjunctions, Subtropics and The Coffin Factory, and has held fellowships or visiting professorships at The University of Iowa, Colgate University, Purdue University, City College of New York, and Columbia University. She is currently Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of English & Creative Writing (Fiction) at Bucknell University, where she is also C. Graydon and Mary E. Rogers Faculty Research Fellow. Her essays have appeared in Granta, AGNI, The Story Prize blog, and the University of Iowa International Writing Program blog.

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