Born in Nigeria in 1989, Emmanuel Iduma studied law at Obafemi Awolowo University in Ile-Ife, Nigeria, and received his MFA in art criticism and writing from the School of Visual Arts, New York, USA.

He is the author of the travelogue A Stranger’s Pose (2018), which was longlisted for the 2019 Ondaatje Prize. His nonfiction and criticism have appeared in Aperture, AGNI, Art in America, Artforum, Granta, n+1, the New York Review of Books, the Yale Review, and other publications.