A Igoni Barrett

A. Igoni Barrett is a Nigerian writer of short stories and novels, born on March 26, 1979, in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. He is known for his collections From Caves of Rotten Teeth (2005) and Love Is Power, or Something Like That (2013), as well as his first novel Blackass (2015), which was described as 'Kafka with a wink' by the Chicago Review of Books. Barrett has won the 2005 BBC World Service short story competition and his short stories have been nominated twice for a Pushcart Prize[1][2][6].