Freda Epum

FREDA EPUM is a Nigerian American writer and artist. She is the author of The Gloomy Girl Variety Show: A Memoir, and two chapbooks, Input/Output and Entryways into memories that might assemble me, which won the Iron Horse Literary Review Chapbook Prize. She is the cocreator of the Black American Tree Project. Epum’s work has been published in The Rumpus, Electric Literature, Vol 1. Brooklyn, Entropy, Bending Genres, and others. She received her MFA from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Originally from Tucson, she now lives in Cincinnati.