Uwem Akpan’s fiction and autobiographical pieces have appeared in The New Yorker, the Nigerian Guardian, O, The Oprah Magazine and more. His collection of stories, SAY YOU'RE ONE OF THEM, won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize (Africa Region), the PEN Open Book Prize, and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and was the 2009 Oprah Book Club selection. He is from Ikot Akpan Eda in the Niger Delta in Nigeria and lives in Gainesville, Florida.

Books by Uwem Akpan

Say You're One of Them

by Uwem Akpan - Fiction, Short Stories