Maik Nwosu

Maik Nwosu is an assistant professor of World Literature at the University of Denver.

Nwosu's poetry collection, Suns of Kush, was awarded the Association of Nigerian Authors / Cadbury Poetry Prize in 1995. His novels, Invisible Chapters and Alpha Song, received the Association of Nigerian Authors Prose Prize and the Association of Nigerian Authors/Spectrum Prose Prize in 1999 and 2002 respectively. He has also published a short story collection Return to Algadez. His poems, stories, and novel excerpts have appeared in Okike, Drumvoices Revue, New Writing, Dublin Quarterly, El Ghibli and Fiction International. As a journalist in Lagos, Nigeria, Nwosu was awarded the Nigeria Media Merit Award for Journalist of the Year in 1995 and cofounded a weekly news magazine, The Source, in 1997. He is a fellow of the Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany, the Civitella Ranieri Center in Umbertide, Italy and a member of the Phi Beta Delta Honor Society for International Scholars.