Julie Iromuanya is the author of the novel Mr. and Mrs. Doctor, which is a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction, the Etisalat Prize for Literature, and the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize for Debut Fiction. Iromuanya earned her BA at the University of Central Florida and her MA and PhD at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, and she was a Herbert W. Martin Fellow at the University of Dayton in Ohio. She is an assistant professor in the creative writing MFA program at the University of Arizona.