Walking on Cowrie Shells

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. Read more →