(Image description: a young bespectacled Black woman, her hand under her chin, looks toward the upper left while smiling at the camera; she has braids, a black shirt, and silver swirly earrings. Photo credit: Logan Peters) — Image description: Chimedum Ohaegbu, a bespectacled Black woman, rests her hand under her chin. She looks toward the upper left while smiling at the camera; she has black braids, a black shirt, and silver swirly earrings. Photo credit: Logan Peters.

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Chimedum Ohaegbu (CHIM-ay-doom aw-HAY-boo, she/her) lives in Vancouver on the territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and Sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. She’s an editorial assistant at McClelland & Stewart and a two-time Hugo Award winner, and formerly worked as Uncanny Magazine’s managing and poetry editor. Her fiction debut was longlisted for the Nommo Award for African Science Fiction and Fantasy, and she holds a Pushcart Prize nomination for poetry. 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 but not insects, 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.

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