Emmanuel Iduma is a writer of fiction and non- fiction. Born and raised in Nigeria, his essays and stories appear frequently in journals, magazines, artists’ books, and exhibition catalogues. He is the author of The Sound of Things to Come (first pub- lished as Farad in Nigeria), and received a 2017
Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation grant in arts writing. He holds an MFA in Art Criticism and Writing from the School of Visual Arts, New York, where he now teaches. In 2017, he was associate curator of the Nigerian pavilion at the Venice Bi- ennale. He is editor of Saraba Magazine, which he co-founded. His latest work is A Stranger’s Pose, a book of travel stories.