Abuchi Modilim is an Igbo-born storyteller, playwright, and musician. He won the 2021 Arojah Students’ Playwriting Prize, a semi-finalist for the 2021 Jack Grape Poetry Prize, and a nominee for the 2022 Best Small Fictions. His debut play, The Brigadiers of a Mad Tribe (Ụtụtụ Publishers, 2023), was longlisted for the 2023 NLNG Prize for Literature, and listed in Open Country Mag 2023 60 Notable Books. His second play, Chimpanzee’s Ark, was read at Kanini Reads Festival 2025, in Brooklyn, New York. He co-edited the Folio of Nigeria Writing for the Arkansas International. His works have appeared in Jellyfish Review, Goatshed, and forthcoming in Joyland Magazine.

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 an MFA candidate in the University of Arkansas’s Program in Creative Writing and Translation, where he was the recipient of the Walton Family and Carolyn F. Walton Cole Fellowship in Fiction, James T. Whitehead Award for Fiction, Lily Peter Fellowship in Fiction, James E. & Ellen Wadley Roper Fellowship in Creative Writing, and Carolyn F. Walton First-Year Fellowship.