Frances Ogamba is a 2022 CLA fellow at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. She won the 2022 Diana Woods Award in Creative Nonfiction, the 2020 Kalahari Short Story Competition, and the 2019 Koffi Addo Prize for Creative Nonfiction. She is also a finalist for the 2023 Locus Awards, 2019 Writivism Short Story Prize, and 2019 Brittle Paper Awards for short fiction. Her stories have been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize.