Freda Ndidi Epum (Free-duh Nn-dee-dee Ay-poom) is a Nigerian-American writer, artist, and consultant from Tucson, AZ. Her work has been published in The Rumpus, Electric Literature, Vol 1. Brooklyn, Entropy, Bending Genres, Cosmonauts Avenue, Heavy Feather Review, Nat.Brut, Third Coast, Atticus Review, Rogue Agent, and the 2020 Bending Genres Anthology. She received her MFA from Miami University in Oxford, OH. Her work has been supported by Lambda Literary, the Tin House Writers Workshop, Voices of Our Nation/VONA, the Ragdale Foundation, the Ohio Arts Council, the Anderson Center at Tower View residency, and the Jordan Goodman Prize.
She is the author of two chapbooks, Input/Output (Tanline Printing) with Amanda Beekhiuzen-Williams and Entryways into memories that might assemble me (selected for the Iron Horse Literary Review Chapbook Prize by Lacy M. Johnson).
She has co-authored the Black American Tree Project, a participatory performative history lesson which has had over 500 participants for international and national conferences and nonprofits. This project has received support from the Ohio Humanities Council, an affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
She lives in Cincinnati where she is a Presidential Fellow in the PhD program in Creative Writing from the University of Cincinnati and is represented by Reiko Davis of DeFiore & Company.
