Chiké Frankie Edozien

Growing up in Lagos, Nigeria Chiké Frankie Edozien learned to read from the newspapers his parents brought home daily. He grew up to become and ink-stain scribbler telling the stories of others in service of a greater good. Edozien currently teaches journalism at New York University and is the director of their Ghana outpost. He is the author of the groundbreaking memoir ‘Lives of Great Men:’ Living & Loving As An African Gay Man which won the 2018 Lambda Literary award for biography/memoir and was a finalist for the Publishing Triangle nonfiction award. His creative nonfiction work, ‘Side Pieces’ appeared in the April 2024 issue of the Michigan Quarterly Review. He is a contributor to the 2016 Commonwealth Writers anthology, Safe House: Explorations in Creative Nonfiction. His latest piece of fiction, ‘Krifé’ appeared in Relations: An Anthology of African and Diaspora Voices (2023). He also contributed the short story Last night in Asaba’ to the Jalada Africa/Transitions magazine special issue in 2017. His work has also appeared in two Gerald Kraak Award anthologies, Pride & Prejudice and The Heart of The Matter. Edozien’s journalism has appeared in the New York Times, Quartz, Time Magazine, The Times (UK) GlobalPost, Out Traveler, Edge, Colorlines, Vibe Magazine, the New York Amsterdam News, the Advocate and more.