Vanessa Onwuemezi

Vanessa Onwuemezi is a writer and poet living in London. She won the White Review Short Story Prize in 2019 and her work has appeared in frieze and Prototype. Her debut story collection, Dark Neighbourhood, was published in 2021 and was named one of the Guardian’s Best Books of 2021. It was shortlisted for both the Republic of Consciousness Prize and the Edge Hill Prize in 2022.

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