A Vietnamese Mardi Gras krewe.
The Black longshoremen of Mobile’s Banana Docks.
A meditation on rice and belonging.
This Food Issue isn’t just about what Southerners eat—it’s about who we are, where we’ve been, and where we’re going.
Iheoma Nwachukwu
About
Iheoma Nwachukwu won the 2023 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. He has won fellowships from the Chinua Achebe Center for Writers, the Michener Center, and the Mississippi Arts Commission. His fiction, nonfiction, and poetry have appeared in Ploughshares, the Southern Review, the Iowa Review, AGNI, Crazyhorse, Electric Literature, Forklift Ohio, and elsewhere. He is an assistant professor of English at Eastern University. Nwachukwu’s debut fiction collection, Japa & Other Stories, is forthcoming in 2024 from the University of Georgia Press.