Ifeanyi Awachie is a Nigeria-born, Atlanta-raised writer and curator based between New York and London. With a B.A. in English and creative writing from Yale University, she is the author of Summer in Igboland. Her writing has been published in Feminist Review, and she is writer and director of This Thing Is Not for You (2021), produced by WATZS Productions, LLC. She is Founder, Director, and Chief Curator of AFRICA SALON UK, a global contemporary African arts festival. She is also a creative director of FUNCTION and a founding member of The Politics of Pleasure Collective. Ifeanyi holds an M.A. in Global Creative and Cultural Industries from SOAS University of London and is currently a Ph.D. student in Cinema Studies and a Corrigan Fellow at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.