’Pemi Aguda

’Pemi Aguda is from Lagos, Nigeria. Her work has been supported by the Helen Zell Writers’ Program, a scholarship from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, an Octavia E. Butler Memorial Scholarship, and an Aspen Words Emerging Writer Fellowship. She is a 2021 Fiction Fellow with the Miami Book Fair and a 2022 MacDowell Fellow, and her novel-in-progress won the 2020 Deborah Rogers Foundation Writers Award.