Enuma Okoro

Enuma Okoro, is a Nigerian-American author, essayist, curator and lecturer. She is a columnist for The Financial Times where she writes the op-ed weekend column, »The Art of Life,« about art, culture and how we live. She is also the curator of the 2024 exhibition, The Flesh of the Earth, at Hauser & Wirth gallery in Chelsea, New York.

Her broader research and writing interests reflect how the intersection of the arts and critical theory, women’s studies, philosophy and contemplative spirituality, and ecology can speak to the human condition and interrogate how we live. Underlying this interrogation is a deeper interest in knowledge systems, and the power of narrative and story.

She writes, lectures, curates, and hosts public conversations with the grounding premise that stories, through their varying mediums, are how we challenge old or false narratives, free our imaginations and tell new and expanded truths that shift perceptions and instigate change.

Okoro has published nonfiction books. Her fiction and poetry are published in anthologies, and her nonfiction essays and articles have been featured in The New York Times, The Financial Times, Aeon, Vogue, The Erotic Review, The Cut, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper’s Bazaar, NYU Washington Review, The Guardian, The Washington Post, and more.