Chinyere Grace Okafor

Chinyere Grace Okafor, poet, playwright, and fiction writer teaches at the Department of Womens Studies and Religion, Wichita State University. An alumnus of University of Sussex (Brighton, UK), University College (Cardiff, UK), and University of Nigeria, (Nsukka, Nigeria), she did postdoctoral work on gender politics and poetics of Masking at Cornell University. Her research is interdisciplinary involving transnational gender, literature and theater, diversity education and mask communication. Dr Okafor has authored an impressive body of literary works in various genres over the last couple of years. Among her publications are He Wants To Marry Me Again and other Stories, The Lion and The Iroko (a play), From Earths Bed Chamber (poems), Campus Palavar and Other Plays, and The New Toyi Toyi. She has also been widely published in journals and magazines.