Samuel Okoli

Samuel Okoli, a Nigerian-American writer, graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a dual degree in creative writing and psychology. He spends much of his free time writing poems, short stories, and a developing book manuscript, all while working as an application developer. He currently resides in Aurora, Illinois.

Samuel Okoli

Reviews

on Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi

Like Yaa Gyasi’s previous novel, Homegoing (2016), and in the spirit of many other works by West African writers, her latest book, Transcendent Kingdom, straddles two worlds. This story about how a young woman resolves the tension between her African and American heritage uses a collage of memories set in Ghana and the United States […]

Spring 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...

Enveloped by Memory

Gardens at the Margins

Monumental Achievements

Future Fossils (with an introduction by Taylor Bradley)

A Celebration of Life (with an interview by C. J. Bartunek)

4. selections from “The Exhibit of American Negroes” for the 1900 Paris Exposition

on Peach State by Adrienne Su

on Home in Florida: Latinx Writers and the Literature of Uprootedness, edited by Anjanette...

on Bitter in the Mouth by Monique Truong

Mississippi Masala Revisited

on Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi

on Death Stranding, created by Hideo Kojima

on Virga by Shin Yu Pai

on Hard Like Water by Yan Lianke, translated by Carlos Rojas

Spring 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...

Enveloped by Memory

Gardens at the Margins

Monumental Achievements

Future Fossils (with an introduction by Taylor Bradley)

A Celebration of Life (with an interview by C. J. Bartunek)

4. selections from “The Exhibit of American Negroes” for the 1900 Paris Exposition

on Peach State by Adrienne Su

on Home in Florida: Latinx Writers and the Literature of Uprootedness, edited by Anjanette...

on Bitter in the Mouth by Monique Truong

Mississippi Masala Revisited

on Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi

on Death Stranding, created by Hideo Kojima

on Virga by Shin Yu Pai

on Hard Like Water by Yan Lianke, translated by Carlos Rojas

Spring 2022

Samuel Okoli

on Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi

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Jerry’s Dirt

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

Jerry’s Dirt

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