Nana Nkweti

Nana Nkweti is a Cameroonian-American writer best known for her debut short story collection Walking on Cowrie Shells (Graywolf Press, 2021), which won a Whiting Award and was praised by The New York Times as a raucous and impressive debut. Website. She holds a BA from Rutgers University (1999) and an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop (2014), and serves as an assistant professor of creative writing at the University of Alabama.University of Alabama. A Caine Prize finalist, her genre-spanning fiction explores hyphenated American experiences with roots in Africa.