Julie Iromuanya is the author of Mr. and Mrs. Doctor (Coffee House Press), a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction, the Etisalat Prize for Literature, and the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize for Debut Fiction.
Her scholarly-critical work has appeared in Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism and Callaloo: A Journal of African American Arts and Letters and is forthcoming in Afropolitan Literature as World Literature (Bloomsbury). She was the inaugural Herbert W. Martin Fellow in Creative Writing at the University of Dayton, and has been a Kimbilio Fellow, a Jane Tinkham Broughton Fellow in Fiction at Bread Loaf Writers Conference, a Tennessee Williams Scholar at the Sewanee Writers Conference, and a Bread Loaf Bakeless/Camargo France Fellow, among other honors.
Iromuanya earned her B.A. at the University of Central Florida and her M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She is an assistant professor at the University of Chicago where she teaches creative writing and Africana literature.
At MacDowell, she worked on revisions for her second novel manuscript, A Season of Light, about an immigrant family's efforts to rebuild, heal, and remember the Biafran War, and she drafted an article on African feminisms for the Nordic Africa conference in Sweden.
