’Pemi Aguda is from Lagos, Nigeria. W.W. Norton will publish her debut short story collection, Ghostroots, in early 2024 and her debut novel, The Suicide Mothers, in 2025. She was a 2022 MacDowell fellow, and is a graduate of the Helen Zell Writers’ Program. Her work has appeared in Ploughshares, Zoetrope, Granta, ZYZZYVA, Tor.com, American Short Fiction, and One Story.