Ucheoma Onwutuebe is a Nigerian writer. She is a recipient of an O Henry Prize for Short Fiction and a Waasnode Fiction Prize. Her story ‘Man’ was shortlisted for the 2026 ALCS Tom-Gallon Trust Award. She has received residencies from Yaddo, Art Omi, and the Anderson Center. Her works have appeared in A Public Space, Catapult, Bellevue Literary Review, Passages North, Prairie Schooner, Off Assignment, Bakwa Magazine and elsewhere. She received an MFA in Creative Writing (Nonfiction) from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and is currently a PhD student at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.