Chisom Okafor, Nigerian poet and clinical nutritionist, is the author of Winged Witnesses (University of Nebraska Press) and the chapbook, All I Know About a Heavy Heart Is How to Carry It (Jacar Press), selected by Jaki Shelton Green as winner of the New Voices Award. He has received support from the Sundress Academy for the Arts and the Commonwealth Foundation. He presently lives in Alabama where he is studying for his MFA in Creative Writing as a Graduate Council Fellow.
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