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National Book Foundation > Author > Candice Iloh
Candice Iloh is a first-generation Nigerian-American writer, teaching artist, and youth educator. She has performed her work around the country She is a graduate of Howard University and holds an MFA in writing from Lesley University. More about this author >
Key moments of Ada’s young life—her mother’s descent into addiction, her father’s attempts to create a home for his American daughter more like the one he knew in Nigeria, her first year at a historically black college—are weaved together into a luminous and inspiring verse novel. More about this book >
Candice Iloh is a first-generation Nigerian-American writer, teaching artist, and youth educator. She has performed her work around the country She is a graduate of Howard University and holds an MFA in writing from Lesley University. Her work has earned fellowships from Lambda Literary and VONA among many others. Every Body Looking is her first novel.