Nkiacha Atemnkeng

Nkiacha Atemnkeng is a writer from Cameroon. He earned his MFA in Creative Writing from Texas State University in San Marcos, where he taught College writing courses as a faculty member. He is currently enrolled in the PhD in Rhetoric, Writing and Professional Communication at East Carolina University. Nkiacha has published fiction and creative non-fiction in various anthologies in print, such as The Lost Manuscript and Other Meditations by Bakwa Books, the Caine Prize for African writing anthology, Lusaka Punk and Other Stories, the Short Story Day Africa (SSDA) Hotel Africa fiction anthology, Of Passion and Ink: New Voices from Cameroon fiction anthology by Bakwa Books, Limbe to Lagos: Nonfiction from Cameroon and Nigeria by Bakwa and Saraba magazines, and Taxi Drivers Who Drive Us Nowhere nonfiction anthology. His work has also been published in The Guardian UK, The Africa Report, This is Africa, The Johannesburg Review of Books, Porter House Review, Longreads, among others. He is a winner of the Goethe Institut/Sylt Foundation African Writer’s Residency Award on Sylt island, Germany, and a 2021 Art Omi Writer’s residency fellow in Ghent, New York. He was also runner-up in the Bakwa Magazine Short Story contest. Nkiacha attended the 2018 Miles Morland Foundation writer’s workshop on Bulago island, Uganda and the 2015 Caine Prize writers' workshop in Elmina, Ghana.