Image description: Chimedum Ohaegbu, a bespectacled Black woman, smiles while speaking into a microphone. She looks toward the left; she has a black Afro-puff, a checkered jacket, and a gold halo headband in her hair. Photo credit: Mel Howe.
Image description: Chimedum Ohaegbu, a bespectacled Black woman, smiles while speaking into a microphone. She looks toward the left; she has a black Afro-puff, a checkered jacket, and a gold halo headband in her hair. Photo credit: Mel Howe.

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Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

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Chimedum Ohaegbu resides in Moh’kinstsis, colonially known as Calgary, Alberta. She is a three-time Hugo Award winner, and Room Magazine‘s managing editor. She’s a 2021 graduate of UBC’s Creative Writing Program (Bachelor of Fine Arts) and, as a playwright, the 2021 Black Arts Development Program. She loves insect facts, the theatre and stageplays, birds and magpies especially, and orchestral videogame music. Her work can be found in Strange Horizons, Arc Poetry Magazine, Contemporary Verse 2, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and the Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Vol.3, among others. She is currently working on her first novel.

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