Zite Ezeh is a Nigerian-Kenyan-American writer, musician, and teacher. Ezeh 's work often centers around love and belonging. It lives in liminal spaces—between the said and the unsaid. She is particularly interested in how people carve out slices of home for themselves, often against the backdrop of a world that has othered them.
Ezeh holds an M.F.A. from UC Riverside where they were a Gluck Fellow and received the 2024 Abraham Polonsky Endowed Award. They have been in residence at the Edith Wharton Writing Residency, the Juniper Institute, and Vermont Studio Center. When they’re not writing, you can find them making music with their band, crocheting, or climbing up a hill to stare at the moon. Ezeh’s center lies with the people they love.
While at MacDowell, Ezeh completed a section of her in-progress novel, a speculative fiction project blending Igbo cosmology, futurism, and a little bit (a lot) of chaos.
