Lesley Nneka Arimah is an author.Arimah's work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, , McSweeney’s, GRANTA, and other publications. She has received the 2015 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for Africa, the 2017 O. Henry Prize, the 2017 Kirkus Prize, and the 2019 Caine Prize for African Writing.Arimah is a 2019 United States Artists Fellow in Writing.