Bayo Ojikutu is an author based in Chicago, IL (US). His first novel, 47th Street Black (2003), received both the Washington Prize for Fiction and the Great American Book Award. Ojikutu's short fiction appeared in the 2005 Akashic Press anthology Chicago Noir. Random House/Crown is releasing his second novel, Free Burning, in 2006. Ojikutu has taught with DePaul University, and in the Division of the Humanities at the University of Chicago.

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• Excerpt from the novel Free Burning, published in Otium