Okey Ndibe (first name is produced as "Okay") is the author of two novels, "Foreign Gods, Inc." (named one of the best books of 2014 by, among others, Janet Maslin of the New York Times, National Public Radio, Philadelphia Inquirer, Cleveland Plain Dealer, and Mosaic magazine), and "Arrows of Rain." He is also a co-editor (with Zimbabwean writer, Chenjerai Hove) of "Writers Writing on Conflicts and Wars in Africa." His career as a writer began after he responded in the affirmative when a novelist asked, "You're working on a novel, right?" Ndibe is a 2015-2016 Shearing Fellow at the University of Nevada Las Vegas where he's working on a novel titled "Native Tongues." He earned MFA and PhD degrees from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and has taught at Brown University, Trinity College, Simon's Rock College, Connecticut College, and the University of Lagos (as a Fulbright scholar). He served as the founding editor of African Commentary, a US-based international magazine published by the late novelist, Chinua Achebe. In addition, he was a member of the editorial board of Hartford Courant, the oldest continuously published newspaper in the US, where his journalism won national and state awards. Ndibe's essays and reviews have appeared in the New York Times, BBC online, Financial Times, The Guardian, Al Jazeera online, The Mail & Guardian (South Africa), Fabian Society Journal, www.saharareporters.com, and www.thisisafrica.me. His weekly column on Nigerian politics and culture appears in the Daily Sun (Nigeria) and numerous websites. He is currently working on a novel titled "Return Flights" as well as a non-fiction book, "Going Dutch and other American Mis/Adventures," essay vignettes based on his experiences as an immigrant in the US.