Klara’s literary work is drawn to the unstable spaces between home and elsewhere, love and performance, ambition and private longing. Often writing across Nigerian and diasporic settings, she is interested in the emotional bargains people make in order to belong, to be desired, or simply to keep moving.
Selected Publications
The Cheuse Center, 2025
The Cheuse Center, 2023
Vanguard Book of Love Stories/Brittle Paper, 2019
The Kalahari Review, 2019
Current Projects
I am currently at work on a novel and a collection of stories centered on contemporary Nigerian life, migration, social aspiration, and the uneasy intimacies of people in transit between worlds.
Fellowships / Honors
2025 Cheuse Center Travel Fellow, The Alan Cheuse International Writers Center
MFA Candidate in Creative Writing (Fiction), George Mason University
Klara Kalu 