Martin Egblewogbe is a lecturer in Physics at the University of Ghana. His work has appeared in PEN America's Passages and The Scofield, and his story The Gonjon Pin was the title of the 2014 Caine Prize anthology. A resident of Accra, Martin is a co-founder of The Writers' Project and hosts a weekly radio literature show on Citi FM. The Waiting is his second book.

Egblewogbe has created in this collection, The Waiting, one of those rare works of art that is hard to categorise, not simply for its fecund descriptions, but more so because of a stylistic originality that transcends pigeonholing. With a power of description as evocative and poignant as it is tender, Egblewogbe's subject matters range from the simple, though far from simplistic, to the almost metaphysical. He is as adept in covering the shenanigans of a pastor in The Going Down of Pastor Muntumi, with Maupassantian irony, as he is with the seemingly existential scope of a story such as The Cwroling Caterpillar. - Benjamin Kwakye

Martin Egblewogbe is a lecturer in Physics at the University of Ghana. His work has appeared in PEN America's Passages and The Scofield, and his story The Gonjon Pin was the title of the 2014 Caine Prize anthology. A resident of Accra, Martin is a co-founder of The Writers' Project and hosts a weekly radio literature show on Citi FM. The Waiting is his second book.

Egblewogbe has created in this collection, The Waiting, one of those rare works of art that is hard to categorise, not simply for its fecund descriptions, but more so because of a stylistic originality that transcends pigeonholing. With a power of description as evocative and poignant as it is tender, Egblewogbe's subject matters range from the simple, though far from simplistic, to the almost metaphysical. He is as adept in covering the shenanigans of a pastor in The Going Down of Pastor Muntumi, with Maupassantian irony, as he is with the seemingly existential scope of a story such as The Cwroling Caterpillar. - Benjamin Kwakye