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Sidik Fofana
Sidik Fofana is a graduate of NYU’s MFA program and a public school teacher in Brooklyn. His work has appeared in the Sewanee Review and Granta. He was also named a fellow at the Center for Fiction in 2018. Stories from the Tenants Downstairs, composed of eight narratives about residents of a fictional building in Harlem, is his debut short story collection.