Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is the author of the novel Purple Hibiscus (Algonquin, 2003). Her work has appeared in Zoetrope: All-Story, Iowa Review, Prism International, and the 2003 edition of Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards. She has also received the David T. K. Wong Prize for Short Fiction from PEN International and been short-listed for both the Commonwealth and the Caine Prize. Born in Nigeria, she now lives in Baltimore, where she is a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University.