'Pemi Aguda
Fiction
’Pemi Aguda is from Lagos, Nigeria. She has an MFA from the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan. Her debut collection of stories, Ghostroots (Norton, 2024), was a finalist for the 2024 National Book Award in Fiction.
Biography
’Pemi Aguda is from Lagos, Nigeria. She has an MFA from the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan. Her debut collection of stories, Ghostroots (Norton, 2024), was a finalist for the 2024 National Book Award in Fiction, the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, the Young Lions Fiction Award, and the PEN/Faulkner Award.