Chika Unigwe is a professor of creative writing at Georgia College in  Milledgeville and the author of several celebrated works of fiction, including On Black Sister’s Street, which won the NLNG Prize for Literature worth $100,000, De Zwarte Messias (2014), a fictional rendition of the Nigerian memoirist Olaudah Equiano’s life, and a short story collection, Better Never than Late (2019). Her latest novel, The Middle Daughter, was published in April 2023. Unigwe writes a weekly column for the Nigerian Daily Trust.