OUR TEAM

AINEHI EDORO, Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Brittle Paper, is Assistant Professor of Global Black Literatures at the University of Winscosin-Madison’s Department of English and Department of African Cultural Studies. She was formerly Assistant Professor of Global Anglophone Literatures at Marquette University. She has a B.A. from Morgan State University, an M.A. from Kansas University, and a Ph.D. from Duke University. Her research interests include 21st century fiction, literature in digital/social media, The Global Anglophone Novel, African Literature, Contemporary British Fiction, Novel Theory, Political Philosophy, and Digital Humanities. In 2016, Ainehi was included in New African magazine’s list of the “100 Most Influential Africans,” with Nigeria’s The Guardian reporting her to be among the “Five Most Influential Nigerian Women of 2016.” In 2018, she was included in OkayAfrica’s “100 Women” list.

TAHZEEB AKRAM is the Submissions Editor at Brittle Paper. With a deep passion for the African literary scene and community, she has a MA degree in the research field of contemporary representations of queer African literature. In 2018, she presented at the Afems conference on Nigerian drag queens and Chris Abani’s Graceland.

She is from Cape Town and is also currently the head editor of Odd Magazine.

KUHELIKA GHOSH is the Assistant Editor here at Brittle Paper. She is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She studies questions of multispecies justice, agency, care, and queer kinships within postcolonial literatures. Her writing has appeared in Edge Effects, Environmental History Now and is forthcoming in ariel: A Review of International English Literature. Kuhelika enjoys cooking, biking, and playing with her cat Momo in her spare time.

ALESIA ALEXANDER is the Social Media Manager for Brittle Paper. Alesia is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Her work is interested in contemporary Black literature and the task of commemorating Trans-Atlantic slavery in literature and popular culture. Outside of research and work, Alesia enjoys watching cooking and baking Instagram/TikTok and preparing new dishes for friends and family.

CHUKWUEBUKA IBEH, Staff Writer at Brittle Paper, presently studies History and International Relations at the Federal University, Otuoke, Nigeria. His work has appeared in McSweeneys, The Charles River Journal, Clarion Review, and elsewhere. He attended the 2018 Purple Hibiscus Trust Creative Writing Workshop, facilitated by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. His short stories have been shortlisted for the 2017 Awele Creative Trust Award and the 2019 Gerald Kraak Prize.

In 2019, he was named by Electric Literature as one of the “Most Promising New Voices of Nigerian Fiction,” in a feature introduced by Adichie. He was formerly Fiction Editor at Dwartonline and regularly contributes to New England Review of Books. He lives in Port Harcourt, Nigeria.