’Pemi Aguda is from Lagos, Nigeria. She has a master of fine arts degree from the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan. Her writing has won O. Henry Prizes, a Nommo Award for Short Story, a Henfield Prize, and the Writivism Prize. She was a 2021 Fiction Fellow with the Miami Book Fair, a 2022 MacDowell fellow, and is the current Hortense Spillers Assistant Editor at Transition Magazine. Ghostroots, her debut story collection, was a finalist for the 2024 National Book Awards in Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award.
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Thursday, September 11, 2025, 6:00 p.m.–7:30 p.m.
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