Olufemi Terry

Olufemi Terry is a Sierra Leone–born writer, essayist, and journalist. His short fiction has been published in Guernica, The Georgia Review, Chimurenga and The Granta Book of the African Short Story, and translated into French and German. His nonfiction essays have appeared in The American Scholar, Africa is a Country, and the Guardian. He was an International Writer-in-Residence at Cove Park, Scotland, and a Writer-in-Residence at Georgetown University’s Lannan Center for Poetics & Social Practice in Washington, DC. In 2019, he received a grant from the Washington, DC, Commission on the Arts & Humanities. He is the 2010 winner of the Caine Prize for his story ‘Stickfighting Days’. He lives in Germany and Côte d’Ivoire.