Join us for a reading with Ngwah-Mbo Nkweti, the current Hub City Writer-in-Residence! The reading begins tonight at 7:00 pm at Hub City Bookshop.
Nkweti recently completed Like Walking on Cowry Shells – a linked short-story collection focused on the lives of hyphenated-Americans who share her multi-cultural heritage in the United States and Africa
The book features complex, fully-embodied characters in stories she hopes will entertain readers while also offering them a counterpoint to prevalent “heart of darkness” writing that too often depicts a singular “African” experience. Nkweti is the recipient of fellowships from MacDowell, Kimbilio, and Clarion West as well as a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop – where selections from her debut collection were awarded a Plughaupt Prize for Excellence in Fiction.
Read an interview with Nkweti here.