Somto Ihezue (He/Him) is a Nigerian–Igbo writer, editor, and filmmaker. He is a Creative Writing MFA student at the University of Maryland, and an alumnus of Clarion West, Tin House, Voodoonauts, and Milford SF workshops. He is a recipient of the Mandela Institute’s AYNM Fiction Prize, and the Horror Writers Association Grant. His work was shortlisted for the British Fantasy Award (Sydney J. Bounds Awards), the Nommo Awards, the Afritondo Short Story Prize, the Utopia Awards, and has equally been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and the British Science Fiction Award. His works have appeared/forthcoming in Tor: Africa Risen, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Uncanny, Strange Horizons, NIGHTMARE, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Fireside Magazine, Podcastle, Escape Pod, PseudoPod, POETRY Magazine, Flash Fiction Online, Flame Tree Press, Mothersound: The Sauútiverse Anthology, and others. 

He is the assistant editor of the Publishing Taught Me Anthology (SFWA & National Endowment for the Arts), and co-editor of the WTBAP Anthology. Visit his website at https://somtoihezue.com/