I’m a writer and grad student. My work includes The Splinter in the Sky, This World Is Not Yours, The King Must Die, and a dozen or so short stories, which can be found in Reactor, Clarkesworld, Anathema, The Sunday Morning Transport, Kaleidotrope, and Luna Station Quarterly, among other places.
I’m represented by Tricia Skinner of Fuse Literary.
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Kemi Ashing-Giwa is an author and scientist-in-training. Her work includes The Splinter in the Sky, which won the Compton Crook Award and was a USA Today bestseller; This World Is Not Yours; and The King Must Die. Her short fiction, which has been nominated for an Ignyte Award and featured on the Locus Recommended Reading List, has been reprinted in Some of the Best from Tor.com: 15th Anniversary Edition, The Year’s Top Tales of Space and Time, and The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction. She is now pursuing a PhD in the Earth & Planetary Sciences department at Stanford.
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Kemi Ashing-Giwa is the USA Today bestselling, Compton Crook Award-winning, Ignyte Award-nominated author of The Splinter in the Sky, This World Is Not Yours, The King Must Die, and several short stories. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Earth & Planetary Sciences at Stanford.
Photo credit: Ivy Tran
more about me
A chilling vision (Index on Censorship)
Unlikely Friends on a Quest: A Conversation with Kemi Ashing-Giwa (Fantasy Magazine)
Episode 255 (Eating the Fantastic with Scott Edelman)
Meet Kemi Ashing-Giwa (Stanford Magazine)
Stories About Unnamed People (Clarkesworld)
Assassins & Megafauna (Locus Magazine)
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