Howard Meh-Buh Maximus is a Cameroonian writer and scientist.
His writing has won awards such as the Morland Writing Scholarship, 2022 Afritondo Short Story Prize, Kalahari Short Story Prize, and has been finalist and semifinalist for others such as the Alpines Fellowship 2019, and the Bakwa Magazine Short Story Competition in 2016. He was a participant of a Goethe Institute-sponsored Exchange Program for Creative Nonfiction, Limbe to Lagos, in 2017, and Afro Young Adult Fiction for Sub-Saharan Africa in 2019.
He is an Ebedi Writers Residency alumnus, and his work has been translated and published in over 6 languages.
He hold an MSc in Biotechnology from North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. And in 2016, he started a PhD in Microbiology at the University of Buea, which he, years later, suspended indefinitely. He is currently at Texas State University, where he is a recipient of the W. Morgan and Lou Claire Rose Fellowship, to study for an MFA in Fiction.
Howard is working on a collection of short stories and a novel. His novel in progress won the Morland Writing scholarship, 2020.
