is the author of two collections of stories, Voice of America and Alien Stories, and the novels, This House is Not For Sale and When the Sky is Ready the Stars Will Appear. He is a winner of the Caine Prize, The Pushcart Prize and the BOA Short Fiction Prize. His fiction has appeared in The Atlantic, Harper’s Magazine, AGNI, n+1, Guernica, Kenyon Review, McSweeney’s, Zyzzyva,The Threepenny Review, New Statesman and many other places and has been translated into over half a dozen languages including Japanese, Greek, Italian, Icelandic, French, Ibibio etc.. A contributing editor at AGNI, he is currently a professor of English at Providence College in Rhode Island.
