Chinelo Okparanta (a mụrụ n'afọ 1981) bu onye Naijiria-Amerika bụrụkwa onye ode akwukwo na ode akwụkwọ di nkenke . A mụrụ ya na Port Harcourt, Nigeria, ebe a nọrọ zụlite ya ruo mgbe ọ dị afọ iri, bụ mgbe ya na ezinụlọ ya kwagara United States . Chinelo Okparanta bụ onye a mụrụ na Port Harcourt, nke obodo Naijiria , ma mgbe ọ dị afọ iri, ya na ezinụlọ ya kwagara obodo Amerịka. Ọ gụrụ akwụkwọ n'ụlọ akwụkwọ Pennsylvania State University ( Schreyer Honors College ), Mahadum Rutgers ya na Iowa Writers' Workshop . Okparanta ebipụtala nkenke akụkọ mbipụta nke gụnyere Granta, New Yorker, Tin House, The Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, TriQuarterly, Njikọ, Subtropics na The Coffin Factory . Edemede ya apụtala na blọgụ nke AGNI, lọgụ ihe nriteya Akblọgụ nke ụkọ, na Mahadu, blọọgụ Mmemme Writing International . Okparanta enweela mkpakọrịta ma ọ bụ nkuzidịkaaọkammụta nleta na Mahadum nke Iowa, Mahadum Colgate, Mahadum Purdue, College City College of New York, na Mahadum Columbia .