Abuchi Modilim is an Igbo-born storyteller, playwright, and musician. Winner of the 2021 Arojah Students’ Playwriting Prize. His debut play, The Brigadiers of a Mad Tribe (Ụtụtụ Publishers), was longlisted for the Nigeria Prize for Literature and listed in Open Country Mag’s 2023 60 Notable Books. His second play, Chimpanzee’s Ark, was read at Kanini Reads Festival 2025, in Brooklyn, New York.

A 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. He was a semi-finalist for the 2021 Jack Grapes Poetry Prize and a nominee for the Pushcart Prize, The Best American Short Stories, and Best Small Fictions.

Modilim’s works have appeared in No Tokens Journal, Jellyfish Review, Goatshed, Joyland Magazine, and elsewhere. He co-edited the Folio of Nigeria Writing for the Arkansas International.

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.