Abuchi Modilim is an Igbo-born storyteller, playwright, and musician. He won the 2021 Arojah Students’ Playwriting Prize, and was a nominee for the 2022 Best Small Fictions. His debut play, The Brigadiers of a Mad Tribe, was longlisted for the 2023 NLNG Prize for Literature. A recipient of the Walton Family and Carolyn F. Walton Cole Fellowship in Fiction, James T. Whitehead Award for Fiction, Lily Peter Fellowship in Fiction, James E. & Ellen Wadley Roper Fellowship in Creative Writing, and Carolyn F. Walton First-Year Fellowship. His work has appeared in Jellyfish Review, and elsewhere. He is an MFA candidate in the University of Arkansas’s Program in Creative Writing and Translation.
