Freda Epum is a Nigerian American writer and artist from Tucson, AZ. Her work has been published or is forthcoming from Vol 1. Brooklyn, Entropy, Bending Genres, Cosmonauts Avenue, Heavy Feather Review, Nat.Brut, Third Coast, Atticus Review, Rogue Agent, and the 2020 Bending Genres anthology. She received her MFA from Miami University in Oxford, OH. A VONA fellow, her work has also been supported by the Tin House Writers Workshop, the Ragdale Foundation, the Anderson Center at Tower View residency, and the Jordan Goodman Prize. She is the author of two chapbooks, Input/Output and Entryways into memories that might assemble me (selected for the Iron Horse Literary Review Chapbook Prize by Lacy M. Johnson). She has co-authored the Black American Tree Project, a participatory performative history lesson for international and national conferences and nonprofits. This project has recently received support from the Ohio Humanities Council, an affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. She is at work on her first book and lives in Cincinnati.
