on the left is an image of the book Of the Flesh, which shows two orange flowers, one with an eyeball in the center. The title is in lime green. On the right is an author photo. The author looks at the camera; she wears a black top and gold, dangling earrings.

J K Chukwu is a midwestern and Nigerian writer who’s lived in Chicago, off and on, for the last decade. She attended the University of Chicago as an undergraduate, completed her MFA at Brown University, and now advises in the creative writing program at U of C. Her first novel The Unfortunates (2023) is an […]

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