ABOUT FRANCES

Frances Ogamba is a 2025 Mercatus Center’s Don Lavoie Fellow at George Mason University, a 2024 Jacobson Scholar at the Hawkinson Foundation for Peace and Justice, and a 2024 Miles Morland Writing Scholar. She received the 2024 Walter H. Judd Travel fellowship, the 2024 COGS Research grant, and the 2022 College of Liberal Arts fellowship from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Her awards include the 2022 Diana Woods Award in Creative Nonfiction, the 2020 Kalahari Short Story Competition, and the 2019 Koffi Addo Prize for Creative Nonfiction. She is a runner up for the 2024 Minnesota BIPOC Emerging Writer Award, and a finalist for the 2023 Locus Awards, 2019 Writivism Short Story Prize and 2019 Brittle Paper Awards for short fiction. Her novel-in-progress was longlisted for the 2024 First Pages Prize. Her work appears in Ambit, Ninth Letter, Channel, Chestnut Review, CRAFT, New Orleans Review, Lunch Ticket, Vestal Review, The Dark Magazine, Horror Library, Uncharted, Frivolous Comma, Jalada Africa, in The Best of World SF and elsewhere. She is a two-time nominee for the Pushcart Prize, and her short story was recently nominated for Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award. She co-founded the Idembeka Creative Writing Workshop and funds the Frances Ogamba Scholarship for African Writers at Ubwali Literary Magazine.