/Literary Arts
Chukwuebuka Ibeh with francesca ekwuyasi
Event WebsiteAbout
Chukwuebuka Ibeh is a writer from Port Harcourt, Nigeria, born in 2000. His writing has appeared in McSweeneys, New England Review of Books and Lolwe, amongst others, and he is a staff writer at Brittle Paper. He was the runner-up for the 2021 J.F. Powers Prize for Fiction, was a finalist for the Gerald Kraak Award, and was profiled as one of the “Most Promising New Voices of Nigerian Fiction” by Electric Literature. He has studied creative writing under Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dave Eggers, and Tash Aw, and is currently a an MFA student at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.
SF/Arts Curator Insight
City Lights and Doubleday Books present a virtual event with Chukwuebuka Ibeh to celebrate his searing debut novel “Blessings”, about self-acceptance, sexual awakening and first love set in a Nigeria on the verge of criminalizing same-sex relationships. Born in 2000, Ibeh has studied under Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dave Eggers and Tash Aw and will be in conversation with fellow Nigerian writer francesca ekwuyasi, author of “Butter Honey Pig Bread.”
Evan Karp
SF/Arts Curator
City Lights Bookstore
Founded in 1953 by poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Peter D. Martin, City Lights is one of the few truly great independent bookstores in the United States.
Founded in 1953 by poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Peter D. Martin, City Lights is one of the few truly great independent bookstores in the United States.