EC Osondu leads #WeTurnToBooks Instagram Series
Osondu is the author of the short story collection Voice of America (2010) and the novel This House is Not for Sale (2015). Born in Nigeria, he received his MFA from Syracuse University and is the winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing, a Pushcart Prize and, most recently, the BOA Fiction Prize for his short story collection Alien Stories, to be published by BOA Editions in Spring 2021. His fiction has appeared in The Atlantic, n+1, Guernica, and other publications, and he currently teaches at Providence College in Rhode Island.
Apart from delighting us with his witticisms, Osondu shared with us what he’s been reading lately. Whereas our previous guests had mentioned a renewed fondness for poetry, Osondu said that he had been turning to travel books as a way of escaping, if momentarily, the present lockdown.
