Chigozie Obioma was born in 1986 in Akure, Nigeria. A multiple winner of Hopwood Awards for fiction and poetry, his short stories have appeared in the Virginia Quarterly Review and Transition. He has lived in Nigeria, Cyprus, and Turkey, and currently resides in the United States, where he recently completed an MFA in Creative Writing and is now a Fiction Fellow at the University of Michigan. The Fishermen is his first novel.