Somto Ihezue (He/Him) is an Igbo writer, filmmaker, and editor. He is an MFA fellow in Creative Writing at the University of Maryland. His works have appeared, and are forthcoming in Clarkesworld, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Uncanny, Strange Horizons, NIGHTMARE, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Diabolical Plots, Podcastle, POETRY Magazine, Flash Fiction Online, and others. His work has been shortlisted for the ALCS Tom Gallon Trust Award, the British Fantasy Award (Sydney J. Bounds Awards), the Nommo Awards, the Afritondo Short Story Prize, the Utopia Awards, and others. He has received residencies and fellowships from Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Tin House, Sundress Academy for the Arts, Clarion West, Ora Lerman: Soaring Gardens Retreat, and Milford SF. He is the assistant editor of the Publishing Taught Me anthology (SFWA & National Endowment for the Arts sponsored), and co-editor of Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology.