Emmanuel Iduma is a writer whose work spans memoir, fiction, and criticism. His travelogue, A Stranger’s Pose (2018), was longlisted for the 2019 Ondaatje Prize. His latest book, I Am Still With You (2023), a memoir on the aftermath of the Nigerian civil war, was a finalist of the Hurston Wright Legacy Award in the memoir nonfiction category, and was featured on best-of lists by The New Yorker, TIME, Boston Globe, Vulture, and The Republic.

His nonfiction, criticism, and cultural reporting have appeared in Aperture, AGNI, Artforum, Granta, n+1, the New York Review of Books, New York Times, Yale Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Art Review, and other publications. He is a contributing writer to Art in America.

His honours include the AICA-USA Irving Sandler Award for New Voices in Art Criticism, and the C/O Berlin Talent Prize for Theory. In 2020, Iduma was recognized in Apollo International Art Magazine’s “40 under 40 Africa” for the broad social impact of his work, and in 2022, he was awarded the Windham-Campbell Prize.