DK Nnuro is a Ghanaian-born writer. He is curator of special projects at the Stanley Museum of Art at the University of Iowa and adjunct assistant professor in the English Department there. His debut novel, What Napoleon Could Not Do, was one of Barack Obama’s 2023 Summer Reading List picks and the winner of the Great Lakes Colleges Association (GLCA) New Writers Award in Fiction. He has received fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, VCCA, The de Groot Foundation, and Ragdale. His writing has appeared in Gagosian Quarterly, Ploughshares, and LitHub.
