Enyeribe Ibegwam

Enyeribe Ibegwam was brought up in Lagos, Nigeria. His stories have appeared or are forthcoming in PEN America Best Debut Stories 2019, Prairie Schooner, The Southampton Review, Auburn Avenue, and Transition Magazine. He has been awarded a PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize and was a finalist for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize. He has received grants from the Vermont Studio Center and the Elizabeth George Foundation and is currently an MFA student at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.

Enyeribe Ibegwam

Features

Memento Mori

On the morning a week after Marcelina Ngonadi died, the four stooped sister-friends are pensive, knowing that Henrietta will be the next. As they look upon Marcelina’s gleaming casket with […]

IN Winter 2020

Winter 2022

The Visitation of God; The Leaf Blower among the Swimming Pool Lights; E...

First Aid

Collaborations, Water and Light (with an interview by Douglas Carlson)

Teaching Ecopoetry in a Time of Climate Change

The Lonely Ruralist

Influenza 1918

Itō Grows Ill, A Bird Transforms into a Blossom, and The Giant Trees St...

Jerry’s Dirt [Winner of National Magazine Award in Profile Writi...

Sense and Element (with an interview by Gerald Maa)

Returns: Cherokee Diaspora and Art (with an introduction by Ashley Holland)

Ambient Works

Enveloped by Memory

Gardens at the Margins

Monumental Achievements

on I’ve Had to Think Up a Way to Survive: On Trauma, Persistence, and...

on Correction by Gabriel Blackwell

on Activities of Daily Living by Lisa Hsiao Chen

Flailing in the Cracks (on Janice Lee’s Imagine a Death and Brenda Iijima’s Bionic...

Why Read Biography? New Biographical Writing on Adrienne Rich (on Hilary Holladay’s The Power...

on Dominant Genes by SJ Sindu

on Valentine Ackland: A Transgressive Life by Frances Bingham

on Wild Spectacle by Janisse Ray

Winter 2022

The Visitation of God; The Leaf Blower among the Swimming Pool Lights; E...

First Aid

Collaborations, Water and Light (with an interview by Douglas Carlson)

Teaching Ecopoetry in a Time of Climate Change

The Lonely Ruralist

Influenza 1918

Itō Grows Ill, A Bird Transforms into a Blossom, and The Giant Trees St...

Jerry’s Dirt [Winner of National Magazine Award in Profile Writi...

Sense and Element (with an interview by Gerald Maa)

Returns: Cherokee Diaspora and Art (with an introduction by Ashley Holland)

Ambient Works

Enveloped by Memory

Gardens at the Margins

Monumental Achievements

on I’ve Had to Think Up a Way to Survive: On Trauma, Persistence, and...

on Correction by Gabriel Blackwell

on Activities of Daily Living by Lisa Hsiao Chen

Flailing in the Cracks (on Janice Lee’s Imagine a Death and Brenda Iijima’s Bionic...

Why Read Biography? New Biographical Writing on Adrienne Rich (on Hilary Holladay’s The Power...

on Dominant Genes by SJ Sindu

on Valentine Ackland: A Transgressive Life by Frances Bingham

on Wild Spectacle by Janisse Ray

Winter 2022

Enyeribe Ibegwam

Memento Mori

Jerry’s Dirt

[Winner of National Magazine Award in Profile Writi...

Jerry’s Dirt

[Winner of National Magazine Award in Profile Writi...