Award winning writer, reader, editor, publisher, conrunner, etc.
Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki pronounced (UH-ge-ne-chah-we Donald AY-PAY-kee).
50 word bio: Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki is a speculative fiction writer, editor, & publisher from Nigeria. He is a Nebula, Nommo, Otherwise & BFA winner & a Hugo, Locus, WFA, Sturgeon & BSFA finalist. He edited the first ever Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction anthology, the Bridging Worlds anthology & co-edited the Dominion and Africa Risen anthologies. He’s a 2022 Can*Con guest of honour and 2023 ICFA guest of honour
100 word bio: Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki is an African speculative fiction writer and editor in Nigeria. He won the Nebula award and is a multiple Hugo finalist. He also
won the Otherwise, Nommo, BFA and is a finalist in the WFA, Locus, BSFA, & Sturgeon awards. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Strange Horizons, Galaxy’s Edge, Apex, Asimov’s, Tor.com, and more. He edited and published the Bridging Worlds anthology, the first ever Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction anthology, and co-edited the Dominion and Africa Risen anthologies. He founded Jembefola Press and the Emeka Walter Dinjos Memorial Award For Disability In Speculative Fiction. He’s a 2022 Can*Con guest of honour and 2023 ICFA guest of honour
Long bio: Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki is an African speculative fiction writer, editor, publisher, etc in Nigeria. He has won the Nommo award for best speculative fiction by an African, twice, for short story and novella, along with the Otherwise and British Fantasy awards. He’s the first African to have won the Nebula award for best novelette with his climate fiction story O2 Arena, for which he’s also a BSFA, BFA and Nommo award finalist. He’s also the first African to be a Hugo award best novelette finalist. He’s the first African editor to be a finalist in the Hugo award best editor categories and the first POC to be a finalist in the Hugo award editing and fiction categories in the same year. He’s a finalist in the WFA, Locus, BSFA, Sturgeon and This Is Horror awards. His fiction and non-fiction have appeared in and are forthcoming in Tordotcom, Asimov’s, Uncanny Magazine, Apex Magazine, Strange Horizons, Galaxy’s Edge, NBC and more. He edited and published the first ever Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction anthology, a Hugo, WFA, Locus & BFA finalist, and the Pan-African non-fiction anthology, Bridging Worlds: Global Conversations on Creating Pan-African Speculative Literature In a Pandemic. He co-edited the BFA winning Dominion anthology and the Africa Risen anthology, which has a starred review from Publishers Weekly. He guest edited the collections window of Interstellar Flight Press, co-organized the Discon 3 African Stream, and has slush read for Podcastle, Strange Horizons, Cosmic Roots and Eldritch Shores and more.
He founded Jembefola Press and the Emeka Walter Dinjos Memorial Award For Disability In Speculative Fiction. He’s a 2022 Can*Con guest of honour and 2023 ICFA guest of honour
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