Lesley Nneka Arimah, born in the UK and grew up in Nigeria, lives currently in Minneapolis. Her work has received grants and awards from Commonwealth Writers, the Elizabeth George Foundation, The MacDowell Colony, Breadloaf and others. She was selected for the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 and is the recipient of an O'Henry Award. Her debut collection, What it Means When a Man Falls from the Sky (Riverhead, 2017) , won the Kirkus Prize and the New York Public Library Young Lions Award, and was finalist for the Aspen Words Literary Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Leonard Prize. Finally, the book received the Book Award The Bridge for Fiction in 2018, then translated and published in Italy by SEM Editore with the title Quando un Uomo cade dal Cielo