Julie Iromuanya
Biography
Julie Iromuanya
Julie Iromuanya is the author of MR. AND MRS. DOCTOR, which was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction, the Etisalat Prize for Literature, and the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize for Debut Fiction. She is a 2020 George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation fellow, and she was the inaugural Herbert W. Martin Fellow in Creative Writing at the University of Dayton. She is an assistant professor and director of undergraduate studies in the Program in Creative Writing at the University of Chicago and affiliate faculty of the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality and the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture. Born and raised in the American Midwest, she is the daughter of Igbo Nigerian immigrants.
Julie Iromuanya
