Victor E. Ehikhamenor was born in Nigeria. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared or are forthcoming in The Washington Post, Wasafiri, The Literary Magazine, Per Contra, and elsewhere. He is also a painter and photographer whose art has been widely exhibited, collected worldwide, and used for notable book and journal covers, including Chimamanda Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus, Helon Habila’s Measuring Times, Jonathan Luckett’s Feeding Frenzy, Unoma N. Azuah’s Sky-high Flames, and Dreams, Miracles and Jazz: New Adventures in African Writing, edited by Helon Habila and Kadija Sesay. Ehikhamenor holds an MS in technology management from University of Maryland, University College, and an MFA in fiction from University of Maryland, College Park. He is creative director of the Lagos-based newspaper NEXT and 234next.com. (updated 10/2010)