Elinam Agbo is a writer, editor, and teacher of Creative Writing. Born in Ghana and raised in Kansas, she holds an AB in Biological Sciences from the University of Chicago and an MFA in fiction from the University of Michigan’s Helen Zell Writers’ Program. A graduate of the Clarion Workshop, she was the 2021-2023 Kenyon Review Fellow in Prose. Her writing has appeared in Apogee, American Short Fiction, Nimrod, the Best Debut Short Stories 2018, and elsewhere.

As of August 2023, she is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Bucknell University.