Pemi Aguda

Pemi Aguda was born in Nigeria and lives in Lagos, where she works as an architect. She has an MFA from the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan. She has stories in Granta, Zoetrope: All-Story and American Short Fiction. She has a master's degree in Architecture. Aguda won the 2015 Writivism Short Story Prize and was the first recipient of the first Writivism Stellenbosch University writing residency. Her stories are published in Omenana, Saraba, The Kalahari Review, Black Fox Literary Magazine, The Wrong Quarterly and in Prufrock Magazine. Her work also appears in short story anthologies. In 2019 Aguda became a scholarship recipient of the Juniper institute and the 2019 Octavia E. Butler Memorial Scholarship