Bibiana Ossai is a Nigerian writer and a Ph.D. Fiction student at Texas Tech University. She lives, writes, and teaches First-Year writing at Texas Tech University. She holds an MFA in Fiction from Long Island University Brooklyn Campus, where she received the Marilyn Boutwell Graduate Award in Fiction. Bibiana won the Idyllwild Arts Writers Week 2020 Fiction fellowship and the Equinox Journal 2019 Poetry Contest. She is a recipient of The Poetry Project workshop scholarship and a recipient of a Hatty Fitts Walker scholarship from The Fine Arts Work Center. Her works appear in Landing Zone Magazine, Flash Fiction Magazine, Button Eye Review, and The River, Refractions (iō literary online journal), among others.