Kosisochukwu W. Ugwuede (b. 1991) is a reporter, essayist, editor, and photographer from Enugu, Nigeria. Her essays and photographs have been published in several journals including  A Long House, DIAGRAM, Lolwe, Psaltery & Lyre, The Arkansas International, The Sole Adventure, and Bloomberg CityLab.​ 

 

Her writing was awarded a Plentitudes Prize in Nonfiction (2024) and shortlisted for the Koffi Addo Writivism Prize for Nonfiction (2023). It has received Best Spiritual Literature and Best of the Net nominations. Her feature reporting received a 2023 Society of Professional Journalists' Excellence in Journalism Award. Her reporting was also awarded two Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association's Better Newspaper Contest Awards for business and government coverage in 2024. 

 

She graduated Oregon State University's MFA in nonfiction writing program and earned an undergraduate degree in Microbiology & Biochemistry from the University of Nigeria.​ She serves on the reading board of The Plentitudes and was prose editor for the eighth issue of Oregon State's literary journal, 45th Parallel. ​In her downtime, she keeps a Substack called Immensities.