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

Fall 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...

This Is the House that Cotton Built (fold-out insert)

Microchimerism

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

on The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act by Isaac Butler

on Sea Change by Gina Chung

on Nervous: Essays on Heritage and Healing by Jen Soriano

Janine Joseph Takes on How Personhood and Credibility Enter the Record (on Janine Joseph’s...

South to a New Place: Imani Perry and Adolph Reed Jr. on Racial Reckoning...

on This Afterlife: Selected Poems by A. E. Stallings

on The Math Campers by Dan Chiasson

on White Cat, Black Dog by Kelly Link

Fall 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...

This Is the House that Cotton Built (fold-out insert)

Microchimerism

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

on The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act by Isaac Butler

on Sea Change by Gina Chung

on Nervous: Essays on Heritage and Healing by Jen Soriano

Janine Joseph Takes on How Personhood and Credibility Enter the Record (on Janine Joseph’s...

South to a New Place: Imani Perry and Adolph Reed Jr. on Racial Reckoning...

on This Afterlife: Selected Poems by A. E. Stallings

on The Math Campers by Dan Chiasson

on White Cat, Black Dog by Kelly Link

Fall 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...