Chikodili Emelumadu

Chịkọdịlị Emelụmadụ is a novelist and short story writer who was born in Worksop, Nottinghamshire and raised in Awka, Nigeria. Her work has been shortlisted for the Shirley Jackson Awards (2015), the Caine Prize for African Literature (2017 & 2020) and has won a Nommo award (2020 & 2024). In 2019, she emerged winner of the inaugural Curtis Brown First Novel prize for her manuscript ‘Dazzling’. Her debut novel by the same name was published in February 2023 and is available in all bookshops.

Her short fiction is available in many magazines and anthologies such as Isolation: The Horror Anthology (2022), Screams from the Dark (2022), Experimental Writing: A Writer’s Guide and Anthology (2024) and as part of the Royal Literary Fund’s Writer’s Mosaic.

She is currently a PhD student of Creative Writing at Lancaster University.