LibGuides: African American Women Writers: Lesley Nneka Arimah

Lesley Nneka Arimah was born in the UK and grew up in Nigeria and wherever else her father was stationed for work. Her stories have been honored with a National Magazine Award, a Commonwealth Short Story Prize and an O. Henry Award. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, , McSweeney’s, GRANTA and has received support from The Elizabeth George Foundation and MacDowell. She was selected for the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 and her debut collection WHAT IT MEANS WHEN A MAN FALLS FROM THE SKY won the 2017 Kirkus Prize, the 2017 New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award and was selected for the New York Times/PBS book club among other honors. Arimah is a 2019 United States Artists Fellow in Writing.*

Genre: Literary fiction; Short stories; Thrillers and suspense

More about Lesley Nneka Arimah at ProQuest One Literature

*“About.” Lesley Nneka Arimah, https://www.larimah.com/about/. Accessed 8 February 2022.

By Lesley Nneka Arimah

What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky by Lesley Nneka Arimah
In "Who Will Greet You at Home," a National Magazine Award finalist for The New Yorker, A woman desperate for a child weaves one out of hair, with unsettling results. In "Wild," a disastrous night out shifts a teenager and her Nigerian cousin onto uneasy common ground. In "The Future Looks Good," three generations of women are haunted by the ghosts of war, while in "Light," a father struggles to protect and empower the daughter he loves. And in the title story, in a world ravaged by flood and riven by class, experts have discovered how to "fix the equation of a person" - with rippling, unforeseen repercussions.
A people's future of the United States : speculative fiction from 25 extraordinary writers
Speculative stories that challenge oppression and imagine new futures for America. Featuring stories by Lesley Nneka Arimah and N. K. Jemisin.