about her

Gabrielle Emem Harry is a cultural strategist and speculative fiction writer working at the intersection of Digital Humanities and African Arts & Culture. Her interests span fiction, documentary work, cultural programming and digital interventions which increase access to historical and contemporary African and Afro-diasporic knowledge, foster creative community, fuel cultural dynamism and drive social change.

She won the 2024 Nommo Short Story Award, was shortlisted for the 2024 Writivism Short Story Prize, longlisted for the 2025 BSFA award, selected as a 2024 Voodoonauts Fellow and a 2023 LLEAA Fellow. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Strange Horizons, Logic(s), The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction Volume 3, Afterlives: The Year’s Best Death Fiction, the Flametree Press African Short Ghost Stories Anthology, Omenana, Apparition, Isele and more.