Vanessa Onwuemezi is a writer and poet living in London. Her work has appeared in Prototype, frieze and Five Dials. Her story ‘At the Heart of Things’ won the White Review Short Story Prize in 2019. Photograph ©Elizabeth Wicks
‘The hotel is pink all over, as the bitten inside of her mouth, as her dark father’s radiant bottom lip’. A story by Vanessa Onwuemezi, from her collection Dark Neighbourhood.