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Candice Iloh is a Nigerian American author, dancer, and educator. Their debut novel, Every Body Looking, was a National Book Award finalist in 2020 and earned a Michael L. Printz Honor in 2021.

Education
Iloh graduated from Howard University and earned an MFA in creative writing from Lesley University. They completed residencies at VONA, The Home School via Lambda Literary, and the Rhode Island Writer’s Colony.

Career
They were a 2019 Kimbilio Fiction Fellow. Iloh created a one-person show, Ada: On Stage, which debuted in 2018 at Hi-ARTS. Iloh spent three years as writer in residence at Bronx Academy of Letters. They served as one of the national finalist judges for the 2022 Poetry Out Loud competition.

Published works

 * Every Body Watching (2020)
 * Break This House (2022)
 * The Breakbeats Poets, Volume 2: Black Girl Magic anthology (Haymarket Books, 2018)

Awards and recognition

 * 2021 Michael L. Printz Honor, Every Body Watching
 * 2021 Rise, A Feminist Book Project recommended book, Every Body Watching
 * 2020 National Book Award finalist, Every Body Watching
 * 2016 Lambda Literary Home School Fellowship