Elinam Agbo
Fiction
Lewisburg, PA
Elinam Agbo is the recipient of the Kathleen Whittaker Writing Fellowship.
Elinam Agbo is a Ghanaian American writer, editor, and educator. She holds a BA in Biological Sciences from the University of Chicago and an MFA in Prose from the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan, where she won two Hopwood Awards and co-founded the online zine MQR Mixtape. As the 2021-2023 Kenyon Review Fellow, she guest edited BLACK ESTRANGEMENT, a special online issue of Kenyon Review, featuring emerging Black writers. A 2019 Aspen Words Emerging Writer Fellow and graduate of the Clarion Workshop, she has received residencies from Hawthornden Castle, Anderson Center at Tower View, VCCA, and Ragdale. Her work has appeared in Transition, Apogee, American Short Fiction, Nimrod, the PEN America Best Debut Short Stories 2018, and elsewhere. She is currently an Assistant Professor at Bucknell University.