Freda Epum is a Nigerian American writer and artist. She is the author of "The Gloomy Girl Variety Show," and two chapbooks, "Input/Output" and "Entryways into memories that might assemble me," which won the Iron Horse Literary Review Chapbook competition. She is the co-creator 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 recieved her MFA from Miami University, Ohio. Originally from Tucson, she now lives in Cincinnati.
Awards: Ironhorse Literary Review Chapbook Prize
Communities: Arizona Author, Tucsonan, LGBTQ+, African American, Person with a Disability, Child of Immigrants
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