Lesley Nneka Arimah

Lesley Nneka Arimah is a Nigerian writer, and winner of the 2015 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for Africa, the 2017 O. Henry Prize, the 2017 Kirkus Prize, and the 2019 Caine Prize for African Writing. She has been described as "a skillful storyteller who can render entire relationships with just a few lines of dialogue" and "a new voice with certain staying power." Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, Harper's, Per Contra, and other publications.
In September 2017, she was named as one of the fiction writers honored by the National Book Foundation, called "Five Under 35"