Born in the city of Enugu, southeastern part of Nigeria, Udechukwu is the daughter of an Igbo father and an American mother.
Due to the war, she and her siblings took refuge in Michigan USA with their mother while their father stayed back in Nigeria.
[2] She studied under the author Chinua Achebe, earning her bachelor's degree in English and literature at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka.
Together with their daughter, Ijeanuli, and son, Nwora, the couple left Nigeria for America, where they have been living ever since.
Her short story "Night Bus" was published in the Fiction Issue of the journal The Atlantic (August 2006).