Olufemi Terry

Olufemi Terry, born in Sierra Leone and educated in Yorkshire and New York, is a writer, essayist and journalist, and the author of Wilderness of Mirrors (2026). 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 has been the 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 Arts & Humanities. A former juror for both the Miles Morland Scholarship and the AKO Caine Prize for African Writing, he is the 2010 winner of the Caine Prize for his story “Stickfighting Days.” He lives in Germany and Côte d’Ivoire.