Abuchi Modilim is an Igbo-born storyteller, playwright, and musician. His first published full-length play, The Brigadiers of a Mad Tribe (Ụtụtụ Publishers, 2023), was longlisted for the 2023 NLNG Prize for Literature, and was listed among the 60 Notable Books of 2023 by Open Country Mag. He won the 2021 Arojah Students Playwriting Prize, nominated for the 2022 Best Small Fictions, and was a Semi-finalist for the 2021 Jack Grape Poetry Prize. He co-edited the Folio of Nigeria Writing for the Arkansas International. His short fiction appears in No Tokens Journal, Jellyfish Review, Goatshed, and elsewhere.

He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree (Double Honours) in English and Literary Studies/Theatre and Film Studies from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. He is currently an MFA student in the University of Arkansas’s program in Creative Writing and Translation, where he was the recipient of the James E. & Ellen Wadley Roper Fellowship in Creative Writing and Carolyn F. Walton First-Year Fellowship.