KEMI FALODUN

Kemi Falodun (b. 1993) is a writer, journalist and editor from Owo, Nigeria. Her writing explores mental health, social justice, disorders, and culture, particularly photography and film... She is an alumna of Purple Hibiscus Creative Writing Workshop and the inaugural BookArtArea Workshop. She was a Writer-in-Residence at Ebedi Writers Residency and received a fellowship from One World Media (2021). She participated in the Invisible Borders Trans-African Road Trip (Borders Within II) and text from her essay chapbook A Life in Transit (2019) was exhibited in Lagos and New York. She won the 2023 Henfield Prize in Fiction and a Hopwood Award (David Porter Award for Excellence in Journalism).