My name is Kosisochukwu W. Ugwuede (b. 1991). I am a reporter, essayist, editor and photographer from Enugu, Nigeria.

 

I have published essays and photographs in several journals including  A Long House, DIAGRAM, Lolwe, Psaltery & Lyre, The Arkansas International, The Sole Adventure, and Bloomberg CityLab.

 

​My 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.

 

My feature reporting received a 2023 Society of Professional Journalists' Excellence in Journalism Award. My reporting was also awarded two Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association's Better Newspaper Contest Awards for business and government coverage in 2024. 

 

I graduated Oregon State University's MFA in nonfiction writing program and earned an undergraduate degree in Microbiology & Biochemistry from the University of Nigeria.

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I currently serve on the reading board of The Plentitudes and was prose editor for the eighth issue of Oregon State's literary journal, 45th Parallel. 

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In my downtime, I write a Substack newsletter called Immensities where I attend to small obsessions about what I am reading, watching, listening to, living or witnessing.