Ucheoma Onwutuebe is a Nigerian writer.

She is a recipient of an O Henry Prize for Short Fiction and a Waasnode Fiction Prize. She has received residencies from Yaddo, Art Omi, and the Anderson Center. Her works have appeared in A Public Space,  Catapult, Bellevue Literary Review, Passages North, Prairie Schooner, Off Assignment, Bakwa Magazine and elsewhere. She received an MFA in Creative Writing (Nonfiction) from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and currently a PhD student at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.