Africanfuturism Short Stories

Yvette Lisa Ndlovu (Introduction) is a Zimbabwean sarungano. Her debut short story collection, Drinking from Graveyard Wells, won the Cornell University 2023 Philip Freund Prize for Creative Writing and was shortlisted for the Ursula Le Guin Prize for Fiction, the Shirley Jackson Award, and the British Science Fiction Association Award for Best Collection. Her novel manuscript-in-progress was selected by George R.R. Martin for the Worldbuilder Scholarship. She earned her BA at Cornell University and her MFA at UMass Amherst. She is the Newhouse Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Wellesley College and has taught at UMass Amherst, Clarion West online, and the Juniper Institute for Young Writers. She is the co-founder of the Voodoonauts Summer Fellowship for Black SFF writers. Her work has been supported by fellowships from the Tin House Workshop, Bread Loaf Writers Workshop, Clarion West, and the New York State Summer Writers Institute.

Chinelo Onwualu (Associate Editor) is a queer Nigerian writer and editor living in Toronto. She’s the co-host of Griots and Galaxies, a podcast about African speculative fiction and the people who write it, and co-founder of Omenana, a magazine of African speculative fiction. Her writing has been featured in several anthologies and magazines, including Slate, Uncanny, and Strange Horizons. She’s been nominated for the Locus Awards, the British Science Fiction Awards, and the Nommo Awards for African Speculative Fiction. Ex Marginalia, her collection of essays by authors of colour, is available now.