Lesley Nneka Arimah made progress towards completing her novel, a work of magical realism set in a fictional Nigeria. She is the author of What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky (winner of the 2017 Kirkus Prize for Fiction), and she was awarded the 2018 Bridge Book Award from the American Initiative for Italian Culture (AIFIC). Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, Granta, and other publications.
Lesley Arimah
Disciplines:
Literature – fiction
Disciplines:
Literature – fiction
Based in Minneapolis, MN
Residencies: 2016, 2018
More:
www.larimah.com
Studios
Calderwood
Lesley Arimah worked in the Calderwood studio.
In the winter of 1998, motivated by his passion for reading, Stanford Calderwood donated funds for a new writers’ studio. Stanford Calderwood, a newspaperman in his youth who later went on to establish an investment firm, was a lover of nonfiction and was a member of MacDowell’s board of directors…