Irenosen Okojie is a Nigerian British author whose work pushes the boundaries of form, language and ideas. Her novel Butterfly Fish (2015) and short story collections Speak Gigantular (2016) and Nudibranch (2019) have won and been nominated for multiple awards. Her latest novel is Curandera (2024). Her writing has been featured in The New York Times, Observer, The Guardian and HuffPost. She was a Contributing Editor for The White Review and The Review by WritersMosaic and Jhalak.
She co-presented the BBC podcast Turn Up for The Books and has judged various literary prizes, most recently the Dublin Literary Award, BBC National Short Story Award and 2023 Women’s Prize for Fiction. Vice Chair of the Royal Society of Literature, she was awarded an MBE For Services to Literature in 2021. She is the founder and director of Black to the Future, a multidisciplinary Afrofuturist festival.
