Chidelia lived, painted, and wrote in the southern Chinese city of Guǎngzhōu before making the move to Indiana, where Sycamore Review is headquartered. Here she served as Nonfiction Editor & Book Review Coordinator from 2010-2011. She is Nigerian and American, has been based in Paris, Madrid, Atlanta, and New York, and currently lives and writes in China. Chidelia is at work on a novel that explores the black immigrant experience in China, as well as themes of expatriate culture, economic imperialism, loss, longing and love. She is the 2012-2013 Writer-in-Residence at the M-Residency in Shanghai.
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