Homecoming

Cheta Igbokwe is an MFA candidate at the Iowa Playwrights Workshop and a Graduate Teaching Assistant at the Department of Theatre Ars, University of Iowa, United States of America. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Literary Studies from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, where he also edited the University of Nigeria’s students’ journal, The Muse, Number 48; a journal of creative and critical writing, the oldest-surviving students’ journal in West Africa, founded by Chinua Achebe in 1963. He is a 2019 alumnus of the Purple Hibiscus Trust Creative Writing Workshop, facilitated by the Nigerian writer, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. He wrote the screenplay of Island of Happiness-a film which was described by the Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka, as a “magnificent work of art.” His works have appeared in Oyster River Pages, Selfies and Signatures Anthology, The Muse, and elsewhere. He is the winner of The Association of Nigerian Authors’ (ANA) Prize for Drama 2021, for his debut drama, Homecoming.