Freda Epum (FREE-DUH EYY-POOM) is a Nigerian-American writer and artist from Tucson, AZ. She is the author of Entryways into memories that might assemble me (selected for the Iron Horse Literary Review Chapbook Prize by Lacy M. Johnson). Her work has been published in The Rumpus, Electric Literature, Vol 1. Brooklyn, Entropy, Heavy Feather Review, Nat.Brut, Third Coast, Rogue Agent, the 2020 Bending Genres Anthology, and elsewhere. She received her MFA from Miami University in Oxford, OH. A 2018 Voices of Our Nation/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.
