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

Spring 2023

On Craftsmanship (essay) & 1991 State of Human Rights Address

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

First Aid

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...

Painting What Is Said and What Is Kept Silent

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

on A Down Home Meal for These Difficult Times by Meron Hadero

on Are We Ever Our Own by Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes

To Dare a Future (on The Letters of Thom Gunn, edited by August Kleinzahler,...

Auden in the 21st Century (on The Complete Works of W. H. Auden: Poems,...

Fate, Nation, and Fatherhood: Formula 1 Emerges during a Pandemic in America (on Formula...

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

Spring 2023

On Craftsmanship (essay) & 1991 State of Human Rights Address

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

First Aid

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...

Painting What Is Said and What Is Kept Silent

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

on A Down Home Meal for These Difficult Times by Meron Hadero

on Are We Ever Our Own by Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes

To Dare a Future (on The Letters of Thom Gunn, edited by August Kleinzahler,...

Auden in the 21st Century (on The Complete Works of W. H. Auden: Poems,...

Fate, Nation, and Fatherhood: Formula 1 Emerges during a Pandemic in America (on Formula...

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

Spring 2023

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...