Kay Iguh is a fiction writer and graduate of the Creative Writing Program at New York University. She attended the New York State Summer Writer’s Institute in 2013 and completed a four-week residency and fellowship at the Vermont Studio Center in June. Her short story “House Girl” won the 2016 Disquiet Literary Prize. She currently teaches creative writing to high-school students. A native Nigerian, she grew up in Houston and now lives in Brooklyn.