E.C. Osondu is the author of two collections of stories Voice of America and Alien Stories and the novels This House is Not For Sale and When the Sky is Ready the Stars Will Appear.  He is a winner of the Caine Prize- a Pushcart Prize and the  BOA Short Fiction Prize among other prizes. His fiction has appeared in the Atlantic, Harper’s, AGNI, n+1, Guernica, Kenyon Review, McSweeney’s, Zyzzyva, The Threepenny Review, New Statesman and many other places and has been translated into over half a dozen languages. A contributing editor at AGNI, he has been a Visiting Professor at UT Austin and is currently a professor at Providence College in Rhode Island.

Fiction writer and MassArt faculty Shubha Sunder will introduce E.C. Osondu. Sunder is author of the story collection Boomtown Girl and the forthcoming novel Optional Practical Training.