Dr. Ngozi “N/A” Oparah is a writer, researcher, and artist. Ngozi holds a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from California College of the Arts and a Bachelor of Science in Neuroscience and Philosophy from Duke University. Ngozi completed her PhD at Loughborough University where she investigated the roles of phenomenological, multidisciplinary narratives in addressing mental health literacy.

Ngozi served as the Director of Community Programs at StoryCenter, a digital storytelling non-profit, where she instructed in digital and visual storytelling, autofiction, poetry, podcasting, and memoir writing for nearly a decade. Ngozi currently serves as a lecturer on the MASc in Creative Health Degree at UCL and facilitates storytelling and writing workshops worldwide. Her research focuses on storytelling (writing, film) and creative methodologies as tools for research, engagement, wellbeing, and community development. Her most recent research explores the use of participatory and transdisciplinary creative methods as tools for community education and advocacy and healing.

Her writing has been featured in numerous literary magazines, including Foglifter, where she currently serves as a prose editor. Ngozi has also earned residencies in writing, art, and narrative media from Can Serrat in El Bruc, Spain; Proyecto Lingüistico Quetzalteco in Xela, Guatemala; and HANGAR in Lisbon, Portugal.

Ngozi is currently an assistant fiction editor for Foglifter, a queer literary magazine, and works with artists and writers as a copy editor and narrative coach.