Olufemi Terry

Olufemi Terry is a Sierra-Leone born writer, essayist and journalist living in Germany and Cote d'Ivoire. His short fiction has been published in The Georgia Review, Guernica, Chimurenga, and The Granta Book of the Afrian 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 Washington DC Arts & Humanities Grant. A former juror of the Miles Morland Scholarship and the AKO Caine Prize for African writing, he is the 2010 winner of the Caine Prize.