Akwaeke Emezi
Akwaeke Emezi is an Igbo and Tamil writer and video artist based in liminal spaces. Born in Umuahia and raised in Aba, Emezi won a 2015 Morland Writing Scholarship and is a graduate of the Farafina and Caine Prize writing workshops. Their short story "Who Is Like God" won the 2017 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for Africa and their work has been published by Granta and Commonwealth Writers, among others. Freshwater is their debut.